Best sea & desert Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That's why the ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

“So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.”

Men Fall Sea Land Bears Bird Angel Garden Plant Extraordinary Spending Treasure Desert Sunshine Sheep Bees Lilies Pouring Squirrels Land And Sea

Author:John Muir

“The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.”

People World Earth Cities Sea Mountain Empty Forests Desert Nothingness Unchangeable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Knows Men Sea Return Ships Desert Know It All Ships At Sea

Book:Desert

Source: Desert

“The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.”

Made Light Behinds Alive Sea Rocks Changed Materials Grew Golden Desert Sand Angle Time Of Day Sahara Apricots

Book:Force of circumstance

Source: Force of circumstance

“These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.”

Men Should May Lord Cutting Sea Honor All Things Gold Pity Desert Titles Shore Traffic Commodity My Thoughts Merchandise

Author:Eliza Haywood

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.”

Inspirational Motivational Animal Rich Sea Awareness Rivers Lonely Madness Desert Landscape Interiors Cliffs Serene Tranquil Canyons

Book:The Souls of Animals

Source: The Souls of Animals

“They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.”

Christian Sea Taught Angel Desert Beast Thrown Orthodox Egypt Hostile Pits Dew Famine Pillars Obstinate Furnaces Wild Beasts

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.”

Thinking Heaven Greater Sea Objects Elements Resistance Desert Proportion Pyramids

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.”

Men Mind Sea Red Desert Rebellion Creeds Guarded Converting Red Sea

Author:T. E. Lawrence

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

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories

“No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.”

People Made Matter Light Mother Cities Sea Flying Desert Hiding Pearls Boston Philadelphia Gleam Nightfall Arabian Frankfurt

Book:The Rings of Saturn

Source: The Rings of Saturn

“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.”

Wanted Realizing Sea Strange Adults Desert Dry Unpredictable Shifting Desolate

Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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