Quotes About Desert

I am strongly moved to fly into some desert to avoid all approach of human creatures

What's on Tatooine?" "Heard about a job, some big-shot gangster putting a crew together

You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.

I am a man of the ancient earth For I have known the desert at dawn.

Here is the challenge, I believe, for the Christian artist, in whatever sphere: to tell the story of the new world so that people can taste it and want it, even while acknowledging the reality of the desert in which we presently live.

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1–11; Mark 1:12–13; Luke 4:1–13).

what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.

The desert. No seasons of bloom and decay. Just the endless turn of night and day. Out of time: and she is gazing- not over it, taken into it, for it has no measure of space, features that mark distance from here to there. In a film of haze there is no horizon, the pallor of sand, pink-traced, lilac-luminous with its own colour of faint light, has no demarcation from land to air. Sky-haze is indistinguishable from sand-haze. All drifts together, and there is no onlooker; the desert is eternity.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.

You know you're an Arizona native when you "hug" a cactus only once in your lifetime.

The atmosphere was so dull, the cactus I brought into work died. I was certain it died of boredom.

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

wandering, roofless and free, over the sun-scorched deserts. . . for in them we quite lost the trail of the twentieth century and of our materialistic and commercial civilization. . . Even the wrinkles and crow's feet that lined our white faces . . . were burned away. In the silence of the desert and the sweep of pure winds our souls were washed clean, till we too seemed true children of the Earth-Mother and the Sky-Father.

Part of her soul ... gloried in the sheer bodacious unnaturalness of it. Putting a great blue-green water park smack down in the red desert complete with cactus, trading posts, genuine Navajo Indians, and five kinds of rattlesnakes was theater of the absurd at its most outrageous.

Everybody has a notion of what a desert should look like. Effective definitions of deserts vary according to the background of those doing the defining and the purpose of their enquiry. An artist's approach to deserts may be different from the stance taken by a scientist although, broadly, the two usually overlap geographically. It may, or may not, be surprising to learn that no universally accepted definition of the term 'desert' exists.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

How will he get by in the desert without bowls and plates, without coal stoves, without carpets to lie down on with the little ones? Without his toilet, without the view from the window onto the square and the fountains with their crystal-clear water.

To be foreign is to be free. To have a great expanse stretch out before you—the desert, the steppe. To have the shape of the moon behind you like a cradle, the deafening symphony of the cicadas, the air's fragrance of melon peel, the rustle of the scarab beetle when, come evening, the sky turns red, and it ventures out onto the sand to hunt. To have your own history, not for everyone, just your own history written in the tracks you leave behind.

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

Se la gelosia, come donne, poteva essere per loro un sentimento nobile, doveroso, tale da poter essere, in determinati casi, rivelato, confessato a qualche amica, la delusione, questa volta, essendo impudica e profana, era destinata al silenzio, alla solitudine del deserto in cui esse si erano trovate a un certo punto, così di colpo, senz'acqua.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.