Desert Quotes

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

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert – and then make it brief.
Gene Fowler

Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.
James Lovelock

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Austin

A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
Joyce Carol Oates

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
Pierre Loti

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

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
Ellsworth Huntington

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
Edward T. Hall

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
Toni Collette

I think the American West really attracts me because it’s romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Ang Lee

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Nigella Lawson

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
Erika Slezak

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

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Jessamyn West

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
Ling Po

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

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

With all the blood newly dried in the desert, can we not fertilize the land with something else?
Indigo Girls