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All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. -- Louis Pasteur
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. -- Wilfred Owen
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. -- Arthur Helps
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. -- Claude Debussy
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. -- Friedrich Schiller
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. -- Samuel Daniel
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. -- Marguerite Duras
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. -- Dan Flavin
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. -- Tony Blair
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren. -- Edwin Louis Cole
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. -- Omar Khayyam
Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies. -- Temple Grandin
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. -- Shimon Peres
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. -- T. E. Lawrence
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience. -- Olaf Stapledon
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? -- Erica Jong
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. -- William Dampier
The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines. -- John Milton
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. -- Robert Falcon Scott
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. -- Temple Grandin
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. -- Peggy Noonan
Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. -- William Shakespeare
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. -- Denis Kearney
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. -- J. L. Austin
Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the other Snowy monarch, asked in her soft voice.He did indeed, madam," Ezylryb repliedSoren is a much-misunderstood owl these days. Believe me, Soren will do whatever is required in this invasion." -- Kathryn Lasky
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. -- Langston Hughes
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. -- Melvin Calvin
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty. -- Joy Harjo
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. -- Ted Danson
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world. -- Buzz Aldrin
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city. -- Steven Yeun
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. -- Seth Shostak
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. -- Gary Zukav
Stercus Accidit. [barren happens] -- Karen Chance
Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence. -- Ken Danby
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land. -- Mitch Leigh
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. -- Homer
We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy. -- Franklin Graham
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. -- Edmund Burke
Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape. -- Marie Lu
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree. -- Thomas Campbell
That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden -- Peter McWilliams
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. -- Khalil Gibran
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. -- J. C. Ryle
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. -- Irving Stone
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. -- George Eliot
A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth. -- Peace Pilgrim
You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost! -- Paul Washer
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. -- Alexander Pope
I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren. -- Karen Cushman
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. -- Henry David Thoreau
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. -- Joseph Conrad
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. -- Henry Ward Beecher
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. -- Joseph Addison
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. -- Philip Pullman
Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. -- Samuel Johnson
I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing -- J.R. Ward
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. -- Natalie Babbitt
The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. -- Idries Shah
whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism. -- Louis Pasteur
This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance. -- Phindiwe Nkosi
Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water. -- Steven J Lawson
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her. -- Samuel Johnson
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. -- Mary Baker Eddy
A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. -- George Eliot
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. -- Bertrand Russell
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. -- Augustus William Hare
Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile. -- Frank H. T. Rhodes
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.... -- Hilda Doolittle
that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. -- Marcel Proust
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. -- Sylvia Plath
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. -- James Jeans
So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe? -- David Self
Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees. -- John Keats
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. -- Philip Massinger
Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories. -- Nicholas Sparks
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. -- J.G. Farrell
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. -- Robert E. Howard
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches. -- Albert Schweitzer
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. -- Quintilian
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. -- Peter Greenaway
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. -- C. S. Lewis
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. -- Heinrich Heine
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. -- Simone Weil
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. -- Patricia A. McKillip
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? -- George Crabbe
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. -- Alexander Smith
You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. -- Thomas Traherne
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? -- Arthur Golden
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands. -- Edward Gibbon
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture. -- Marianne Williamson
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -- William Shakespeare
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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. -- Waris Dirie
The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality. -- Isobelle Carmody
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. -- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls. -- Sam Worthington
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers. -- Margaret Cavendish
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea. -- Alexander Smith
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave. -- John Dryden
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. -- Joshua Reynolds
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion. -- Martin Luther
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? -- Sigmund Freud

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