#desert

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#desert #happy #larger #loving #oasis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#deserts #down #educator #jungles #modern

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. ↗

— Mary Austin

#desert #expresses #growth #nothing #produces

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#desertion #fears #independence #toddler

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#apply #christ #church #cruelty #desertion

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ↗

— John le Carre

#dust #like #make #mud #out

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#also #civilians #constitute #desert #except

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#california #desert #design #dream #dwellers

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#desert #find #hardly #into #place

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#charge #desert #federal #federal government #government