DESERT QUOTES II

quotations about the desert

In the desert, the only god is a well.

VERA NAZARIAN

Dreams of the Compass Rose


In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

LORD BYRON

Stanzas to Augusta


A desert is what you think it is.

TERRY PRATCHETT

Small Gods


All sunshine makes a desert.

AMERICAN PROVERB


I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

ANNE LAMOTT

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith


I'll be the madness that carries you away
I'll be the sadness to light your darkest day
I'll be the desert island where you can be free
I'll be the vulture you can catch and eat

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS

"Desert Island", Holiday


The desert is like that ... you think thoughts you haven't thought before and you feel feelings that you've always believed are someone else's feelings.

KATJA RUDOLPH

Little Bastards in Springtime


The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the cloudless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.

JAMES CARLOS BLAKE

The Rules of Wolfe


It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: the desert of the real itself.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Simulacra and Simulation


I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain.
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.

DEWEY BUNNELL

"A Horse with No Name"


This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief--like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.

EDWARD ABBEY

Desert Solitaire


A child of the desert is like a vine in the wilderness, spreading its leafy tendrils in profusion; although, in comparison to the same plant cultivated and pruned, it yields but a scanty vintage, it is more beautiful, hanging in flowing ringlets on the on the heads of forest trees, than clipped and confined to hedge-stakes.

EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY

Adventures of a Younger Son


I never meet her in the city
But believe me she is pretty
Six-hundred-fifty miles away
I meet my angel in the desert
In the desert I can meet her
Oh in the desert heat she makes me play

YELLO

"Desert Inn"


The desert is like the sea. It has no grave. The wind and the flies will bury him in the air.

ADAMU KYUKA USMAN

The Disappointed Three


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

PIERRE LOTI

Egypt


Deserts are the most exacting of all known environments, and they compel their inhabitants with profound imperiousness to knuckle under to their prejudices and preconceptions in ten thousand particulars.

GRANT ALLEN

Falling in Love with Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science


Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my time.
Searchin' through the dust, lookin' for a sign.
If there's a light up ahead well brother I don't know.
But I got this fever burnin' in my soul.
So let's take the good times as they go,
And I'll meet you further on up the road.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Further On (Up the Road)", The Rising


There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

TERRY PRATCHETT

Small Gods


Encounters between strangers in the desert, while rare, were occasions of mutual suspicion, and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.

WALTER M. MILLER, JR.

A Canticle for Leibowitz


I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.

PABLO NERUDA

"Ode to Salt"