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Deserts Quotes

Vast, dry landscapes and what they represent.

These quotes treat deserts as both a literal landscape and a symbol of hardship, including a reference to Moses leading a tribe across the Sinai desert. Others focus on deserts as fragile spaces reshaped by shifting climate conditions.

That mighty Being, who heaped up these craggy rocks, and reared these stupendous mountains, and poured out these streams in all directions, and scattered immortal beings throughout these deserts - He is present, by the influence of his Holy Spirit,...

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back...

Quotes by Walter Gropius

About 3,500 years ago, when a patriarch called Moses was supposed to be leading a tribe of Seth's descendants out of the deserts of the Sinai Peninsula, another tribe of shepherds and pastoralists had already established a small kingdom for...

Quotes by Terry Glavin

Do environmentalists really believe that green progress means looking out at America's majestic mountains, forests, green oceans, wilderness areas and deserts and viewing miles upon miles of nothing but windmills and solar paneling?

Quotes by Stephen Moore

Country Quotes

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

Quotes by Solomon Ortiz

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Quotes by Simeon Strunsky

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Quotes by Shimon Peres

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.

Quotes by Paul W. S. Anderson

Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to lose the nourishment. The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires.

Quotes by Michael Specter

Great Quotes

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

Quotes by Margaret Bourke-White

There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.

Quotes by Laurent Baheux

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place...

Quotes by John Hoeven

From space, the earth appears predominantly blue; the clouds are brilliant white. Surprisingly, you don't see much green, although Ireland looks green, and so do Scandinavia and New Zealand. The deserts are brick red and really stand out.

Quotes by Helen Sharman

We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

Life Quotes

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Quotes by Gregory Bateson

Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too...

Quotes by Eric Burdon

Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.

Quotes by Elizabeth Flock

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C.S. Lewis

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

More Quotes

From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.

Quotes by Bill Flores

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these deserts quotes cover?
This page gathers quotes about deserts, ranging from ancient historical journeys through desert landscapes to modern concerns about how climate change may affect their size.
Why do people search for quotes about deserts?
People writing about nature, climate, or history often look for deserts quotes to capture the scale and starkness of desert landscapes in just a few words.
Do any quotes connect deserts to a historical or religious journey?
Yes — one references the biblical account of Moses guiding an ancient tribe across the Sinai desert region, a well-known historical episode tied to that landscape.
What do these quotes say about deserts and climate change?
One warns that even a small rise in average global temperatures could expand the size of deserts, alongside broader concerns about crop failures in regions least able to absorb that loss.
Is there a quote comparing deserts to cities?
Yes — one describes flat city roofs used as green space as a way to bring nature back amid the 'stony deserts' of large towns, using desert imagery to describe urban environments themselves.

A few quotes reach further back, imagining green roofs as a way to bring nature into cities that can otherwise feel like their own stony deserts, a small counterpoint to More concrete and less green space.