People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert? T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.
Pete Dayton: Where the fuck are we going, Alice? Alice Wakefield: We have to go to the desert, baby.
Dr. Zaius: The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.
I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.
