27 Quotes About Deserts

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?

People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!

Why should distances matter? Between us there may be oceansThere may be deserts between us

All the deserts of the Earth combined, don't have enough sand to cover the darkness of this world.

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.

The shadows of the deserts are so magical that we completely forget the owners of the shadows!