Quotes About Desert

I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

CoÅ› jesteÅ›my radoÅ›ni od rana, nie? - Jak pieprzona jutrzenka. Nie przestawaÅ' utyskiwa?, podczas gdy ja doprowadzaÅ'em siÄ™ do stanu przypominajÄ…cego porzÄ…dek. Obóz budziÅ' siÄ™ do ?ycia. Ludzie jedli Å›niadanie i zmywali ze swych ciaÅ' Å›lady pustyni. Przeklinali, narzekali i pyskowali. Niektórzy nawet rozmawiali ze sobÄ…. ZaczÄ™li wraca? do wojny.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.

I thought of Phuong just because of her complete absence. So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Cuando uno se escapa a un desierto el silencio te grita en los oídos.

There were men who lived voluntarily in deserts, but they had their God to commune with. For nearly ten years he had felt no need of friends - one woman could include any number of friends.

Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the

Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet.

He is jealous of the past and the present and the future. His love is like a medieval chastity belt: only when he is there with me, in me, does he feel safe. If I could make him feel secure, then we could love peacefully, happily, not savagely, inordinately, and the desert would recede out of sight. For a lifetime perhaps.

Desert and Death Valley were the Mecca and Al Medina

Most of us pretend, with greater or lesser success, that the minute we live in is something we can share. But the past for every one of us is a desert island.

She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. It was the beauty of a desert at dawn: a loveliness that filled my eyes, and crushed me into silent, unbreathing awe.

She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. It was the beauty of a desert at dawn: a loveliness that filled my eyes, and crushed me into silent, unbreathing awe. Looking

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.

Namibia took my breath away - we were at the border with South Africa, and it was where they filmed 'Mad Max.'

I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.

I'm a totally desert person.

I heard the main reason the Israelites spent forty years wandering in the desert looking for the Promised Land was because Moses refused to ask directions.

I ain't movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.

Any nod on serious hallucinogens can become sagelike, and suddenly the group resembles some Bedouin tribe weary with ancient desert wisdom looking down on the scorpion-stung interloper whose tongue is slowly swelling his throat shut.

She's about as deep as an Arizona mud puddle.

If you're dying of thirst in the desert, drinking your urine won't help you. The proteins and salts are by that point so concentrated that the body needs to pull fluid from the tissues to dilute them, which puts you back where you began, only worse, because now you are saddled with the memory of drinking your own murky, stinking pee. Rhabdomyolysis