Desert Environment Quotes

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn't want to turn into a mutant.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.

No land suits Arab tribesmen except that which suits their camels.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

I'm not a big fan of cold weather; that's why I moved to Vegas!

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

The 'Monster Hunter' world includes these huge deserts that make the Gobi Desert look like a sandbox, and they have ships that sail through the sand.

I love the tones of browns and grays - I love more neutral tones. That's why I like going to the desert and working in the desert. I find that green trees and things like that have a tendency to lock us into a certain way of seeing.

I don't like the sun, but I live in California.

Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.