The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
Whatever their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights.
They make a desert and call it peace.
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...
Welcome to the Desert of the Real.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
The plains are almost wholly uninhabitable by people depending upon agriculture.
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need
A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.
