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• If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Self, Sacred, Remember

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.148, Vintage

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• 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

  Lying, Fancy, Happened

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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• If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Audience, Ifs

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Grace, Grace Of God

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• 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

  Beautiful, Nature, Green Fields

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• I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

  Sheryl Crow

  Waiting, Ships, Standing

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• The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Light, Clarity

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

  David

  Men, Arabia, Needs

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• The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Air, Snakes, Treasure

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.16, Rutgers University Press

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• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

  Jane Austen

  Flower, Air, Unseen

  Jane Austen, Bharat Tandon (2012). “Emma: An Annotated Edition”, p.322, Harvard University Press

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• In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

  Loren Eiseley

  Voice, Devil, Monk

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.62, Library of America

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• The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

  Isaiah

  Rose, Prosperity, Rejoice

  Isaiah, XXXV. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 637-638), 1922.

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• 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

  Discovery, Mountain, Valleys

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

  Frank Herbert

  Cities, Polish

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.269, Macmillan

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• So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

  Graham Greene

  Silence, Ears

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• They make a desert and call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Ubuntu, Global Issues

  Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.

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• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Creeds

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One”, p.24, e-artnow

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• When no one is looking,
  I swallow deserts and clouds
  and chew on mountains
  knowing they are sweet bones!
  When no one is looking
  and I want to kiss God,
  I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

  Hafez

  Sweet, Kissing, Clouds

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• I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

  Paulo Coelho

  Travel, Cities, Two

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Jazz

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

  Wilfred Thesiger

  Civilization, Unattainable, Belief

  Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.38, Penguin

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• 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

  Stars, Ocean, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

  Austin O'Malley

  Marriage, Meals, Soup

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• For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.22, Rutgers University Press

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