T Quotes
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“The desert, a cathedral of solitude, invites introspection and self-discovery. It is a sanctuary for those seeking solace from the cacophony of the world, a place where the distractions of civilisation dissipate, leaving behind a stark clarity.”
Source: Peruvian Days
“The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.”
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.
Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.
The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.
Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“The desert at night was black and a strange madder-tinted silver; the sky was black, and the great contorted cliffs, and the vast expanses of sand that stretched out in all directions. But the red moon cast a pale crimson-tinged luminescence over everything, and far above the stars were glittering points of silver.”
Source: Lord of the Changing Winds
“The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.”
Source: Longinus The Vampire: Babylon
“The desert, being an unwanted place, might well be the last stand of life against unlife. For in the rich and moist and wanted areas of the world, life pyramids against itself and in its confusion has finally allied itself with the enemy non-life.”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all.”
Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”
Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh
“The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.”
“The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.”
“The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.”
Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
“The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.”
Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
“The desert has mothered magic things before this.”
Source: Travels with Charley
“The desert I've been struggling through without you makes me thirsty
So hold me already
I know that without you the ocean will be just like a desert”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.”
“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.”
“The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.”
“The desert is a purgatory for man, and a watering place for Death.”
Source: Miraž
“The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.”
Source: Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir
“The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.”
“The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.”
“The desert is an unpredictable place. One day you're sweating, the next you're freezing. One moment the air is damp and cloudy like when the tide is coming in, the next the entire world is orange and dusty. The desert must be a woman.”
Source: Of Those So Close Beside Me
“The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.”
“The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.”
Source: America
“The desert is nothing without water. Actually, it's everything without water, because if it had water it would cease to be a desert. Powdered Duck Eggs are the same way. Just add water! Or don't! How you consume them is up to you.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.”
Source: Desert
“The desert is too quiet place for our thoughts.”
Source: Miraž
“The desert itself has assumed significance; it has been glutted with poetry. For all the world’s sorrows it is a hallowed spot.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.”
“The desert madness." He'd never been to Africa, but he'd seen plenty of remote places and what they did to men. "Lots of them get it. They've nothing to do but brood. Time treats them badly. It stretches worse here because the liquor stinks and there aren't any women. The place just uses them up. Even their assholes get raw from the sand."
"I'll never let the desert affect me as it does them," Paul said. "I'll go home first."
Remy couldn't help mocking Paul gently for his naïve enthusiasm. "I think you take it a bit far the other way. Let me see if I understand your point of view. In the market there are clouds of flies competing with swarms of beggars for the pleasure of eating camel shit mixed with rotting vegetables. What they can't stomach the cook picks up. He spices it up nicely with some old spit and smears it on top of a mixture of couscous, peb- bles, and sand. Then he dishes it back to you, at six times the price he'd charge anyone else. You know what you're eating-you watch him prepare it-but all the same you enjoy it, because it's exotic."
"That's about it." Paul smiled. "L'haute cuisine d'Afrique." Remy roared.”
Source: Empires of Sand by David Ball
“The desert mocked the map-makers.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.”
“The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.”
Source: Into the Wild
“The desert sings of loss, always loss, and if you stand quiet with your eyes closed, it will grieve you too.”
Source: The Candle and the Flame
“The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.”
Source: Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature
“The desert still has a memory of water. And that memory is a living thing. It is infused into the sand. It is part of its essence.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.”
Source: Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, Creatures of Forever
“The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.”
“The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything. They become the Soul of the World.”
“The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.”
“The desert was a prison without bars. Her fear was her shackles.”
Source: The Illusions of Hope
“The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.”
Source: Shalako
“The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.”
Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition
“The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.”
Source: Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)
“The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.”