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And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. -- Andrew Marvell
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time... -- Washington Irving
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. -- Bear Grylls
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. -- Craig Venter
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. -- Margaret Bourke-White
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. -- C. S. Lewis
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. -- Edward Bond
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. -- Antonia Fraser
I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it. -- Louie Schwartzberg
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. -- James Lovelock
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. -- Andrew Jackson
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. -- Gregory Bateson
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. -- Jamais Cascio
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. -- Solomon Ortiz
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. -- John F. Kennedy
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. -- C. S. Lewis
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die. -- Bear Grylls
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
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. -- Nelson Mandela
Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to lose the nourishment. The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires. -- Michael Specter
With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations. -- Jeff Goodell
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. -- Paul Theroux
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. -- David Suzuki
The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. -- Michael Dickinson
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink. -- Eric Burdon
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. -- John Hoeven
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world. -- Michael Palin
Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it. -- Robyn Davidson
I am not a collector of deserts! -- Benito Mussolini
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels. -- Derrick Jensen
What man calls civilization always results in deserts. -- Don Marquis
Let each man have according to his deserts. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. -- Harry Hershfield
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains. -- Wallace Stegner
Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the deserts. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start. -- W. H. Auden
The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry. -- Lucy Freeman
The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches. -- Thomas Merton
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. -- Gil Scott-Heron
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers. -- Golda Meir
Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases. -- Molly Ivins
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. -- Charles Williams
When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons. -- Aldous Huxley
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. -- Victor Hugo
Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain. -- Edward Greenly
The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts. -- David J. C. MacKay
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. -- Andy Hargreaves
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop -- Paulo Coelho
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. -- Alexander Smith
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? -- George Washington
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States. -- Simeon Strunsky
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. -- Al-Farabi
The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish. -- Paul P. Enns
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. -- George Graham Vest
My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. -- Victor Hugo
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. -- Paulo Coelho
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. -- John Milton
Before anything else, determine your direction right, because if your direction is wrong, you may end up in deserts instead of green valleys! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed. -- Terry Pratchett
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. -- H. L. Mencken
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars. -- Buzz Aldrin
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places. -- Herb Ritts
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country. -- Andre Maurois
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. -- Andrew Jackson
A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . . -- Marsilio Ficino
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings. -- Frederick Lenz
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings. -- Frederick Lenz
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment. -- Nelson Mandela
I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money. -- Suzanne Somers
I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies. -- Francesca Lia Block
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul. -- Lynn Andrews
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead. -- Khalil Gibran
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry. -- Lucretius
The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing. -- Violet Cross
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below. -- Jean Giono
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable. -- Frederick Lenz
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable. -- Frederick Lenz
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor. -- Clarence Day
For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life. -- Gary Chapman
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. -- Akhenaton
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The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests. -- Noah Cicero
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. -- Faith Baldwin
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul. -- Paulo Coelho
We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. -- John Dryden
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one. -- George Schaller
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. -- Jamais Cascio
Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things. -- Peder Soerensen
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics. -- Sam Harris
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself. -- Jean Baudrillard

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