#barren

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. ↗

— William Dampier

#being #best #dry #generally #i

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#because #free #i #i love #love

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#barren #been #catholic #churches #especially

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume. ↗

— William John Wills

#assume #barren #beautiful #believe #could

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

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

#basis #blessing #considered #contracting #ever

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#babies #baby #barren #damages #damaging

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#barren #each #experiment #experiments #had

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

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

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose