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Desert Quotes

I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.

Greatness Desert Landscape China Us

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Life Nature Sea Man Desert Lonely

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.

Men Mountain Desert Find Place Poor

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Desert Bible Rest Walking Year Look

The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.

Technology Science Great Desert True

I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.

Love Desert Palm California Up Like

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Life Time Desert My Life Military

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

Me Desert Survival Finding Summer

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Soul Yourself People Desert Think

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

Snow Desert Media Brilliant She

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Truth Spring Desert Truth Is Without

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

Live People Crazy Desert Thought

President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.

Drive Desert President Consensus

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

George Saunders

Cool World Desert Reputation Dubai

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

Ellsworth Huntington

Plants Desert Forest Matter Variety

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

Charlotte Rampling

Heart Desert Limits Grow Know Never

There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.

Beach Skiing World Desert You Three

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Knowledge Ignorance Desert Our

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Government Space People Mind Desert

My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days to Santa Barbara or to the desert, so my first real vacation came was when I was 12, when friends of my parents were taking their kids away. We went to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park in Arizona and Utah.

Family Vacation Parents Desert Three

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

I Am Desert Jungle Lost May Able

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Silence Desert Conversation Holiness

As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special.

Life Journey Sun Wake Up Desert You

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

Soul Joy Mind Desert Self Luxury

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