Quotes About Desert

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.

He'd lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.

Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.