#desert

Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like push-ups about a foot away from his face. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#romantic-suspense #romantic

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#deserts #education #forests #nature #nothing

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#bulldoze #california #desert #discovering #environmentalist

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#fortune #good #good fortune #greener #happiness

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#arabia #desert #felt #great #great people

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#barren #desert #each #few #few men

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#around #blood #come #desert #distrust

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#bleached #desert #discarded #eternal #eternal life

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#come #commitment #cruelty #desert #each

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. ↗

— Edward Young

#desert #great #great majority #joins #life