I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary. – Rose George
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. – Roger Mahony
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. – William Langewiesche
My mum’s from Broome, so I’m a saltwater person – Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I’m not necessarily in the water. – Shari Sebbens
My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans. – Taylor Negron
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. – Tom Ford
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses… we engaged a spy. – Zebulon Pike
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly. – T. E. Lawrence
I’d had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did. – Terri Windling
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. – Van Wyck Brooks
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’ – Steven Wright
The song ‘What Goes Up’ was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. – Vanna Bonta
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. – T. E. Lawrence
Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we’re discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn’t happen. – Stewart Brand
The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome. – Zhang Zhidong
Every time I come, I’m still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert… I love it. – Theo James
I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile. – Viggo Mortensen
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. – Stafford Cripps
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals. – Tim Cope
The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. – Steven Michael Quezada
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. – Sydney Smith