Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Mary Hunter Austin
GrowthTreeDesertBetterUnhappy
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.
Miller Williams
FatherAttitudeSonPoetryDesert
The first 600 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, before you get into the Sierra Nevada mountain range, is heavy on desert. One of the things I carry with me in the desert is an umbrella. People think that's insane. It has a shiny top to it, so it looks totally ridiculous, but the difference can be 20 degrees.
Jay Duplass
MountainPeopleMeDesertThinkYou
'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.
Christine McVie
MeCrazyDesertSummerSometimes
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
InspirationalBeautifulDesertWell
I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
Anne Lamott
CarTimeServiceBeachDesertShort
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
Pierre Loti
DesertSandCornerKingdomAround
Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily mined countries.
Peter Bergen
WorldDesertDifficultiesContrast
I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.
Richard Quest
WorkBusinessWaterMoneyDesert
People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.
Mother Angelica
WorkLiveAloneWalkPeopleDesert
Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.
Lesley Manville
MusicMeSongDesertNameDown
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
James Lovelock
EnvironmentalDesertForestCreate
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.
Hod Lipson
CarDriveDesertComputersPlay
The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.
Fred Ehrsam
CarChallengeDesertRevolutionOff
I think carpet bombing is an absolutely tremendous idea if the enemy accommodates you by laying himself out like a carpet in the middle of the desert without any civilians or infrastructure around him. Sadly, the Islamic State has learned that that is a losing proposition and does not accommodate us in that way.
David Petraeus
LosingDesertThinkYouEnemyWay
When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.
Bill Gross
TimeMoneyDesertCreditRunPose
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus
LifeCitySocietyDesertBig City
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.
Terri Windling
GirlHeartDesertYoungInterest
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
George Grey
FriendAloneDesertRestBetterSaw
For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
Carol Berg
GreatMountainsColdDesertSummer
The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome.
Zhang Zhidong
DesertFindHeavenWillDifficult
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
BookDesertJudgeHouseLostThree
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Jessamyn West
DesertWithoutVegetationInhabitants
I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
Sam Shepard
PeaceDesertThoughtYouGoAlways
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