#desert

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#confronted #contemporaries #desert #go #him

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. ↗

— James Lovelock

#desert #easier #forest #much #sadly

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#crucial #decisive #desert #greek #how

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#abroad #cannot #defend #deserting #freedom

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out. ↗

— Ross Perot

#country #desert #going #limited #little

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#car #desert #doors #i #inside

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #brothers #child #desert #endures

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#absolutely nothing #child #dead #desert #heading

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. ↗

— Saadi

#areas #because #biodiversity #coastal #coral