Desert Quotes - Page 28

• If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Islands, Planning

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• Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

  Mason Cooley

  Islands, People, Three

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• The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

  John Steinbeck

  Order, Oneness, Unity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.118, Penguin

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• To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

  Norman Borlaug

  Lakes, Luxury, Rivers

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• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Ignorance, Reality, Thinking

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• Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Heart, Saving, Realizing

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2013). “Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security”, p.47, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

  Herb Ritts

  Ocean, Light, Space

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• I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

  Herb Ritts

  Stars, Growing Up, Fun

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• A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.

  Al-Farabi

  Hate, Cities, Giving

  "The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV". 1991.

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• Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

  Lawrence Block

  War, Book, Islands

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• 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.

  Eddie Izzard

  Animal, Want, Rats

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• Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt with the tangible.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Real, Light, Earth Life

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• Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert

  T. E. Lawrence

  War, Army, Ideas

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

  Tom Kundig

  Art, Wall, Block

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• If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

  Matthew Simpson

  Children, World, May

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Writing, Opportunity, Self

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• The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Flower, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

  Frank Waters

  Ocean, Sage, Tides

  Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

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• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  C. L. R. James

  Country, Kings, Long

  C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.180, Penguin UK

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• God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan—or man to create both.

  Colin Fletcher

  Men, Light, Darkness

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• What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Home, Writing, Men

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• God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."

  Caesarius of Arles

  Men, Saint, Looks

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• No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred by the accident of birth to both the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggles, the poor are not wrong in believing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Believe, Struggle, Law

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Socialism: Mill's Works”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.

  Gilbert Parker

  Stars, Distance, Eye

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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