quotations about the desert
They make a desert and call it peace.
TACITUS
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Agricola
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.
T. S. ELIOT
The Rock
Nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters.
JOHN GEDDES
A Familiar Rain
The desert is like the sea, with the waves of wind over the hard sand, with the froth of rolling bramble bushes, with the flat stones, patches of lichen and plaques of salt, and the black shadows that dig out holes when the sun draws near to the earth.
J. M. G. LE CLÉZIO
Desert
God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden.
PAUL E. MILLER
A Praying Life
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
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
"Interior Monologue,", The Wheel of Love and Other Stories
The desert is the theater of the human struggle of searching for God.
JAN MAJERNIK
The Synoptics
This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.
DOROTHY B. HUGHES
The Expendable Man
I'm moving, I'm changing
I might find myself
Out in the desert's land
Raise the moon
Call the dead
Touch the sky
Curse the sand
CORONER
"Serpent Moves", Grin
Come here my serenade, my desert serenade
A lover's melody, to bring you close to me
It's a tender lullaby, born of golden sand and sky
The song is new, and it's calling you
Tonight beside the desert palms
ELVIS PRESLEY
"My Desert Serenade", Harum Scarum
If deserts have a fault ... that fault may doubtless be found in the fact that their scenery as a rule tends to be just a trifle monotonous.
GRANT ALLEN
Falling in Love with Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
PAUL HOFFMAN
The Last Four Things
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
STEPHEN KING
The Gunslinger