#desert

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#desert island #go #island #live #otherwise

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so... ↗

— Michelle Moran

#change

God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden... The best gift of the desert is God's presence... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#god #prayer #restless #courage

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender her to Mr. Rawlinson; he himself would not fall into his father's arms and would not hear from his lips that he had acted like a true Pole! The end, the end! In a few days the sun would shine only upon the lifeless bodies and afterwards would dry them up into a semblance of those mummies which slumber in an eternal sleep in the museums in Egypt ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#death-and-dying #desert #doubt #hopelessness #sahara

Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#nature #outdoors #nature

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#away #beauty #desert #feel #gas

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#any #back #been #chain #day

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. ↗

— Edward Bond

#competent #deserts #end #may #new

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#enemy #going #imagination #our #over

He watched her for her reaction, or possibly watched her just to watch, his eyes hooded by his lashes and his mouth impassive. A faceless man—such as the one she had dreamed of since she was a child—his identity not obscured by mist or flying sand or swirling dust, but by a mask he readily employed whenever he wished. As a shutter closed against a gale. Closed against her, no matter the impact of his words. He seemed to speak them against his will, just as he seemed to care for her against his will. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#desert #historical #romance #dreams