Desert Quotes

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

~ Omar Khayyám

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

~ George Saunders

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

~ Robyn Davidson

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

~ Hod Lipson

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

~ Joyce Carol Oates

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

~ Ella Maillart

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

~ Sydney Smith

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

~ Pat Conroy

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

I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.

~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

~ Joy Harjo

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

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

~ Will Durant

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

~ Bill Viola

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

~ Khalil Gibran

New York is the great stone desert.

~ Israel Zangwill

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

~ Stacy Schiff

Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.

~ Steve Jurvetson

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

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

Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.

~ Philippe Cousteau

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 went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.

~ Hannah Simone

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

~ Bear Grylls

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

~ Mickey Rivers

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

~ James Lovelock