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• 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

  Country, Ideas, Giving

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• The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Different

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• Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Blessing

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• I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moon, Men, Omission

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• My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Giving, Spirit

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

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• It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Heart, Journey, Men

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Song, Ocean, Book

  "Happy Lucky Idiot". Poem by Nanao Sakaki, first published in his book "Break the Mirror", 1987.

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• Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

  Henry David Thoreau

  College, Men, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may be out in the desert today, but tomorrow it could be in your backyard…Already over a dozen projects are proposed in San Diego and Imperial County.

  Robert Scheid

  Land, Giving, Backyards

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• Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Men, Islands, Personality

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• The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

  Paulo Coelho

  Wind, Alchemist, Our Love

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• My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Dream, Heart, People

  "The Road Back to Nature". Book by Masanobu Fukuoka, 1987.

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.34, Image

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• I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.  How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.  How you can fall in love with the light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Falling In Love, Home, Light

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• The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, California, Endurance

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.116, Penguin

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• The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

  Franz Kafka

  Father, Heart, Church

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• The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

  Jon Krakauer

  Sweet, Light, Shapes

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

  Stephen King

  Regret, Feelings, Guilt

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.

  Gene Fowler

  Gratitude, Water, Drink

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• If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

  Jim Rohn

  Regret, Dust, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 05, 2016

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• Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Ocean, Book, Islands

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”

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• When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Clever, Fun

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• Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

  John Steinbeck

  Water, Sun, Changed

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.120, Penguin

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