Quotes About Desert

Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they went up to see, they found Outka, Mimouna and Aicha; they were still there, lying the same way as when they had gone to sleep. And all three of the glasses,' he held up his own little tea glass, 'were full of sand. That was how they had their tea in the Sahara.

The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving behind all familiar things, this constant consideration kept him in a state of pleasurable agitation.

The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang.

It was soon clear as we ground through traffic that though Calexico, California, was a small town, Mexicali, on the other side of the thirty-foot fence, was a city of a million people, with an international airport, a large cathedral, a bullring, two museums, hospitals, four universities, a dental school, several public libraries, and industrial areas, sprawling in the desert of Baja

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

I've crossed these sands many times, said one of the camel drivers one night. But 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 boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.

But my heart is agitated, It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World.

Sebab aku tidak hidup di masa lalu ataupun di masa depan. Aku hanya tertarik pada saat ini. Berbahagialah orang yang bisa berkonsentrasi hanya untuk saat ini. Akan kaulihat bahwa di gurun ini pun ada kehidupan, di langit sana bintang-bintang bersinar, dan suku-suku berperang karena mereka bagian dari umat manusia. Hidup ini akan terasa seperti pesta bagimu, suatu festival meriah, sebab hidup ini adalah saat yang kita jalani sekarang.

The wind began to blow again. It was the levanter, the wind that came from Africa. It didn't bring with it the smell of the desert, nor the threat of Moorish invasion. Instead, it brought the scent of a perfume he knew well, and the touch of a kiss—a kiss that came from far away, slowly, slowly, until it rested on his lips. The boy smiled. It was the first time she had done that. I'm coming, Fatima, he said.

He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.

and that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said. Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it.

May be God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

I had a dream, and I met with a king. I sold crystal and crossed the desert. And, because the tribes declared war, I went to the well, seeking the alchemist. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.

You're crying? I'm a woman of the desert, she said, averting her face. But above all, I'm a woman.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

The woman serving me was wearing a white sports bra that looked like it had been mauled by tigers--desert isle chic.

The desert wind was strong, and the dust came over the street like fog. Still, two men were sweeping the road.

In his introduction to Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta, T. E. Lawrence attempted to describe the character of the desert Arabs that both he and Doughty had admired. "They are the least morbid of peoples," Lawrence wrote, "who take the gift of life unquestioningly, as an axiom.