a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.
I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.
I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task. . . . No oil company gets as excited about the customers in its own backyard as about the oil in the Sahara Desert. . . . But the truth is, it seems to me, that the industry begins with the needs of the customer for its products. From that primal position its definition moves steadily back stream to areas of progressively lesser importance until it finally comes to rest at the search for oil.
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air
Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.
No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel. . . when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.
There is no desert like being friendless.
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.
Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime
A desert is a place without expectation.
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.
My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.
I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.