Barren Quotes

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. Gary Zukav
Future Time Me Winter Darkness Pain Imagination Birth Something Gives Like Beyond Joyfully Withdrawal Glory Always Been Itself Unexpected Confines Bursting Forth Produces Special Barren Monarch Cocoon Butterfly Inconceivable
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Heights Down Valleys Stay Silliness Never Come Cleverness Up Green Barren
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. Mary Wollstonecraft
Life Blessing Will Independence Long Live Every Virtue Considered Though Secure Were Contracting Heath Wants Grand Barren Ever Basis
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes
Life Dreams Life Is A Field Go Snow Frozen Hold Barren Fast
Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. John Muir
World Destruction Care Nation Every Other Bitter Bitter End Has-Been Must Civilized Leaving Go Been End Forests America Spain Barren Waste Palestine Compelled
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. Peggy Noonan
War Battle World Mind Trench Never Like Terrain Reagan Ronald Reagan Warfare Hard Barren Many Fought World War World War I
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Claude Debussy
Love Music Try Free Because Stifle Passionately Traditions Barren
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. Henry Cabot Lodge
Love Soil Harsh Favored More New New England Climate Passing Stormy Regions Coast England Barren Even Rough
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. Louis Pasteur
Yourself Tainted Skepticism Barren
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. Seth Shostak
Life Alone Words Simple Space Believe Other Worlds Our One Percent Able Percent Seems More Takes Support Dead Frequency Math Exist Lot In Other Words Galaxy Planets Billion Barren Roughly Credulity
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. T. E. Lawrence
Family Man Men Free Holding Valley Clan Would Fact Had Hill Looked His Quickly Owner In Fact Acknowledged Against Land Aggression Who Barren Whoever Each Assert Desert Chose Right
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. Temple Grandin
You Animals Some Environment Know Also Behaviors Autistic Autistic Children May Children Who Barren Found Raised Zoo
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. Alfred Whitney Griswold
You Criticism Kind Tells Which Barren Thing
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world. Buzz Aldrin
Future Change World Key Understanding Past Own Our Mars Insights New Make Scientific How Climate Climate Change Past And Future Wet May Gain Processes Warm Us Landscape Exploring Barren Bring
The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces. Chip Conley
Day Nature Business Seen Live Our About Emotionally Contagious Era Brain Traffic Thankfully Being Psychology Which Us Teaching Commute Barren Peak Stressful Intersection
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. Dan Flavin
Light Blessed Savior Constructed Cathedrals Limited Up Celebrating Elaborate Rooms Icons Barren Bring Raise
The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. Donal Logue
Lonely Way Feels Irish Barren Desert
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. Ernest Thompson Seton
Death Me Game Hardships Starved Dreadful Some Cases Had Abundant Who Grounds Barren Even Suffered Travellers Consequence
Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment. Isabella Bird
Disappointment Lonely First Group Distance Rule Sight Out Rising Exception Grey Land Sea Barren Peaks
I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality. Isobelle Carmody
Spirituality Subconscious Believe Our Those Excellent Myths Perhaps Yearnings Yes Reflects Fantasy Us Use Barren Societies
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. J. L. Austin
Me Thought Made Long Philosophy Say Pleasures Reaching Subject Discovery Owe Afforded Often Co-Operation Barren Fun Agreement Satisfaction
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement. James Stephens
Achievement Hate World Victory Evil Finality Hopelessly More Attainment Greatest Woeful Nor Tragedy Than Any Movement Happen Which Barren
My personal life is fairly barren. Lindsey Buckingham
Life Personal Life Fairly Personal Barren
I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. Lorde
Impossible Internet Think Kid Would Would-Be New Because Coming New Zealand Little Barren Zealand
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land. Mitch Leigh
Old Joke Leigh Land Barren
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. Peter Greenaway
Good Valuable Lodged Critics Haughty Ten More Writer Like Maternity Than Ward Barren Mediocre
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