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“I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.”

Ifs Thinking Life Play Music Listening Survival Desert Islands Composer Being Alone Pianist

Author:Glenn Gould

“We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.”

Suffering Survival Desert

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“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.”

Way Years Humans Heart Two Light Imagination Human Beings Views Four Tree Skills Normal Survival Beats Seasons Possession Desert Faster Rely Sand Pace Palms Gleam Heart Beat Palm Trees

Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh

Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh

“In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.”

Matter Church Land Survival Priorities Desert Stewardship

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths. Both are vast, harsh, implacable, homogenous to the untrained eye, and beautiful. Bothallow the wind to roam on the surface. And both serve as wonderful vehicles for human survival stories.”

Humans Stories Eye Beautiful Wonderful Wind Ocean Survival Depth Metaphor Surface Desert Vehicle Harsh Desolation Counterparts

Author:Vera Nazarian

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

Survival Desert Arena Never Change

Author:Bear Grylls

“Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.”

Wells Real Seems Grows Community Situation Struggle Survival Mere Desert Sentiments Sentimental Confrontation Goodwill

Author:Larry Harvey