163 Desert Quotes for You to Enjoy

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert. Robert Duncan

Out Devout Laid Desert Gardens

The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you seen that portrayed in film or television. Mars is just portrayed as a place that's got reddish sand but is otherwise pretty much identical to the Mojave Desert, and that's not the case. Robert J. Sawyer

Best You Seen Single Otherwise Earth Television Mars Pretty One-Third About Case Percent Never Almost Identical Got Reduced Just Place Sand Much Desert Film Thing Gravity Portrayed Third

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. Robin Coste Lewis

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. Roger Mahony

Year Other Unacceptable Immigrants Detained Shackled California Parts Conditions Southwest Died Children Deplorable Including Desert Dozens

Fans jump on your bandwagon and desert you when you hit the harder times. Roy Hodgson

You Fans Jump Times Hit Bandwagon Your Desert Harder

This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me. S. C. Gwynne

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace. Sam Shepard

You Peace Thought Something Attacks Always Go Antithesis Desert

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship. Stacy Schiff

Good Day You Travel Army Nothing Desolate Changed Out Only Mercenary Take Had Since Cleopatra She How How Far Ship Current Where Against Far Realize Miles Desert Her

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness. T. E. Lawrence

Soul Joy Luxury Mind Made Own Holding Saved Back Danger Arab Restraint Self He Voluntarily Like Perhaps Without Renunciation Self-Restraint His Selfishness Body Hard Desert Found

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals. Tim Cope

Me Survival Matter Animals Summer Finding Shelter Desert

I was fortunate to have served in leadership positions throughout my entire service in the Army. I was in my first unit for two or three months before deploying to Desert Storm. I immediate knew I was in the right place. Todd Wilcox

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard. Toni Collette

Brilliant Being Hard Desert

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile. Viggo Mortensen

Time Natural Whatever Every Relief Worthwhile Never Around Felt Been Walking Place Desert Waste Waste Of Time Second Every Second

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present. Walton Goggins

Time Great Journey Water Long Long Time Drop Finally Spill About Drink Through Part Suppose Supposed Wrote Without Go Truly Wallow Human Being Which Desert Wasting Present Wasting Time Need

I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place. William Devane

Time Country Half Farm Live Slippers Out Guys Half The Time Sort Houses Around Lot Place Packing Farmers Desert Pajamas Thing

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