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900 Best Perfect Desert Quotes And Captions For Instagram (2023)

1. The desert is a place for growth


2. Serving you just deserts.


3. Wanderlust and desert dust


4. “Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.” ― Rebecca Solnit


5. ”Good, clean fun — in the sand.”


6. “You can’t fight the desert. And you have to ride with it.”-Louis L’Amour


7. A rose in the desert can only survive on its strength, not it’s beauty.


8. “The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.” – Frank Waters


9. ”It's always worth taking the scenic route. ”


10. “The desert is so vast that no one can know it all.”


11. “The sand has rules. F***ed up rules, but rules nonetheless.” – Kameron Hurley


12. “Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.” – Frank Herbert


13. We’re going on an adventure.


14. “To see the desert is like peeling the skin off a landscape.” – Fred Williams


15. “Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.”


16. “No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”


17. She created a life she loved.


18. “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” ― John Muir


19. “The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That’s the way it will be with our love for each other.”― Paulo Coelho.


20. ”Night comes to the desert all at once. ”


21. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”


22. “The desert does not mean the absence of men, it means the presence of God.” – Carlo Carretto


23. The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.


24. “Life is always like a desert. You’ll either find an oasis or will end up in a mirage while finding one.” – Surimal Kundu


25. “Peace, love, and desert dust.”


26. “No WiFi, but going to find a better connection out here.”


27. How are you dune?


28. “I don’t look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That’s what the desert animals do – they don’t have a tan either. ” – Don Van Vliet


29. “The magic of the desert is hard to define.”


30. “A cactus doesn’t live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn’t killed it yet.” – Hope Jahren


31. “I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.” – Robyn Davidson


32. “Travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” – Brenna Smith


33. “Something strange happened to me out there in the desert; I don’t know what.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson


34. “Sand is my favorite color.”


35. “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” – Antoine de Saint


36. “Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.”


37. “The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.” – Khaled Hosseini


38. “We affect the desert and desert affects us. Deserts are an integral part of the story of humanity and thus are the object of fascination for many of us.” – Michael A. Mares


39. “The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.” – Bear Grylls


40. “The desert wears a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting – but waiting for what?” – Edward Abbey


41. “Desert Woman” Zhu


42. “If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.” – Matshona Dhliwayo


43. “This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.”


44. “The region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave.” ― Lt. Edward Beal


45. “I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace — something that attacks you. So you don’t go to the desert for peace.”


46. “Of all the paths you follow, be sure a few of them is through the desert.”


47. The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.


48. “Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple.” – Terry Pratchett, Jingo


49. “The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoiled. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.” – Charles Duke


50. “Every mountain high, every valley low.”


51. Ready to make tracks in the sand.


52. “It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man’s insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.” – Edwin Way Teale


53. “Once again there was the desert, and that only.” ― Stephen King


54. “I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.” ― Anne Lamott


55. “You are a nomad, a wanderer – just like me. You roam the desert and I roam the world. What’s the difference between us?” ― Linda Ruth Horowitz


56. “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” – Arab Proverb


57. Just a girl dreaming of the desert.


58. “I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.” – Anne Lamott


59. “Taking a safari to the dunes.”


60. “All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it, all the marvels of creation.” ― Paulo Coelho


61. They make a desert and call it peace.


62. “It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.” – Jean Klein


63. “Only the desert has a fascination, to ride alone in the sun in the forever unpossessed country- away from the man. That is a great temptation.” – D. H. Lawrence


64. “It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist


65. “All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation.” – Paulo Coelho


66. “What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.”- Edward Abbey


67. ”Windows down, wind through my hair, desert dust in my shoes. ”


68. “The desert’s an old dream of the sea.” ― Holly Ringland


69. What did the camel say to the Oasis? I’ll never desert you.


70. “My favorite color is sunset.”


71. “The immense desert, empty as a bird’s wing, inspired him with promise.”


72. Somehow, the stars are just better out here


73. “I’m branching out.” (Use this caption on a pic of you posing next to a particularly large cactus.)


74. Once a year, go someplace you have never been before.


75. OK Mother Nature, you didn’t need to flex that hard


76. “We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.” – Yeonmi Park


77. “Why are the desert blooms that spring to life after a monsoon so magnificent? The answer is – their impermanence. The lush growth and blooming flowers do not last very long here in the desert, and this new growth only happens once a year. If this growth was never-ending, we would soon take it for granted. Likewise, our human lives. What makes them so special and unique? Our fleeting impermanence.” ― Alaric Hutchinson


78. ”Desert hair, don’t care. ”


79. “Out here when there’s a lull in the conversation, nature sends a real tumbleweed to break the silence.”


80. “In the empire of the desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan


81. “Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!”


82. Travel makes on modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert


83. “Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water. Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life. The only veil that stands between the perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage. Dare to breach the surface and sink.” ― Vera Nazarian


84. “Sand, sun, and safaris: the perfect trifecta”


85. “They hike almost three miles without incident, and it’s amazing to watch the colors leach back into the desert after the day’s blanching. There’s a moment, Lydia realizes, or no, more than a moment – a span of perhaps fifteen minutes just at twilight – when the desert is the most perfect place that exists. The temperature, the light, the colors, all hang and linger at some unflawed precipice, like the cars of a roller coaster ticking ever so slowly over their apex before the crash. The light droops ever farther from the sky, and Lydia can smell the heat of the day wicking away from her skin.” ― Jeanine Cummins


86. “Pretty fly for cacti!”


87. “The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz


88. If I have ever seen magic, it has been in the desert.


89. “Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.”― Stephen King


90. “What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.” – Edward Abbey


91. “The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.”- Paulo Coelho


92. And into the desert I go, to lose my mind and find my soul


93. “I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.”-Robyn Davidson


94. “There’s no WiFi in the desert, but I’m definitely going to find a better connection out here.”


95. “A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.”― Keith Miller


96. “Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.” – Frank Herbert, Dune


97. I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky.


98. “The desert became grim, dark, and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.” ― Alan Kinros


99. “Every dreamer deserves to get away every once in a while.”


100. Taking a safari to the dunes.


101. “Glamping is my favorite sport.”


102. “I’m a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I’m from the Sonoran Desert, which extends to both sides of the border. I’m really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there’s a fence, you know, running through it.”


103. “The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.”– Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio


104. ”Taking the long way home. ”


105. “If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.”


106. “Good, clean fun — in the sand.”


107. “You grow, girl.”


108. “Born to explore.”


109. I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.


110. I was born to explore


111. To travel is to live.


112. “In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.”


113. “Cover the earth before it covers you.”


114. “In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated.” – Terry Pratchett


115. I love the desert…even though it gives me the hump sometimes


116. Desert hair, don’t care.


117. “Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.”


118. “Camping hair, don't care.”


119. Everybody’s going to the party…dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.


120. “In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground.”― Charles de Leusse


121. “I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.” — Robyn Davidson


122. “Wanderlust and desert dust.”


123. “On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oases and deserts. In both cases, don’t stop.” – Paulo Coelho


124. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are through the desert.”


125. Starry skies and fireflies.


126. Desert hearts


127. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing.


128. What makes the barren region lovely is that someplace it hides a well.


129. “Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”


130. “My favorite color is sand.”


131. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are Sandy.”


132. Traveling makes you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller.


133. ”Forever wandering where the WiFi is weak. ”


134. “The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.” – Jean Baudrillard


135. Every dreamer deserves to get away every once in a while.


136. “The desert does not mean the absence of men, it means the presence of God”. – Carlo Carretto


137. “The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.”


138. Desert Hearts.


139. “Deserts never believe in cactus. seeds so.” ― Deepak Gupta


140. “A rose in a desert can only survive on its strength, not its beauty.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo


141. “Someone asked me if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… How to Build a Boat.” – Steven Wright


142. “A rose in a desert can only survive on its strength, not its beauty.”- Matshona Dhliwayo


143. “The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.”


144. Planting myself here for a while.


145. Life is dry as a desert. Find the oasis of love.


146. Sand is my favourite colour


147. “The desert, to those who do listen, is more likely to provoke awe than to invite conquest.”


148. “There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent.” ― Gertrude Bell


149. “Life is like a desert. You only regret the oasis you let pass.”


150. Dear desert, many thanks for creating us feel tiny, sandy, humble, and inspired, all directly.


151. “The shadows of the deserts are so magical that we completely forget the owners of the shadows!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan


152. “For now, the world of Altadas was mostly an empty desert, but in the future, it might be a world of iron.” ― Dean F. Wilson


153. ”Child of nature. ”


154. “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.” ― Dorothy B. Hughes


155. “Deserts are full of sand and winds are full of air, both are full of something but both look quite empty, and when they get to pair it’s easy to see they are almighty.” ― Alain Bremond-Torrent


156. “I keep thinking back to a time under the canyon moon.” — Harry Styles, “Canyon Moon”


157. I love the desert…even though it gives me the hump sometimes.


158. “Dubai, with all of its glitz and glamor rose in the heart of the desert.” ― Soroosh Shahrivar


159. “Life is like a desert, you only regret the oasis you let pass.”


160. “A forest is a mystery, but the desert is truth” – The Booke of Flying


161. Pretty fly for a cacti.


162. “Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.” – James Lovelock, English scientist


163. “The desert surrounds me.”


164. When you escape to a desert, the silence shouts in your ear.” – Graham Greene


165. “I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt in the desert.” ― Pablo Neruda


166. Kissed by the sun and roasted by sand.


167. “The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. – John Steinbeck


168. “The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise, it will become a desert.” – Sorin Cerin


169. Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul


170. “The desert is my therapy.”


171. ”Every dreamer deserves to get away every once in a while. ”


172. “Time has a way of burying things, shifting like the desert and swallowing entire civilizations, erasing them from map and memory. Always, in the end, everything returns to dust.” – Jessica Khoury


173. “True understanding lies beyond the desert” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana


174. “A desert is a place without expectation.“ – Nadine Gordimer


175. Ridin’ these dunes


176. “A desert, which might be considered the antithesis of the sea, actually poses similar challenges to the evolution of life.”


177. “You are struck by the awesome beauty of the desert landscape even as you view it in the relentless glare of the midday sun. It is at once a kaleidoscope of images, a land of contrasts and paradoxes.” – Fred Punzo


178. “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


179. The desert is my therapy.


180. “I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t cloaked in forest, nor draped in green. Green was pastoral, peaceful, mild. Desert beauty was “sublime” in the way that the romantic poets had used the word- not peaceful dales but rugged mountain faces, not reassuring but daunting nature, the earth’s skin and haunches, its spines and angles arching prehistorically in sunlight.” ― Julene Bair


181. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucious


182. “I’ll never desert you.”


183. Take me to the desert.


184. She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in. – John Mark Green


185. “That’s what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.” ― Joy Williams


186. “Water is a desert’s gold.”– Matshona Dhliwayo


187. “Switched out my Netflix streaming for an Airstream instead.”


188. If I have ever seen magic, it has been in the desert


189. “If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.”– Matshona Dhliwayo


190. “Like the desert waiting for the rain. Like a school kid waiting for the spring.” – Norah Jones


191. “The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.” -Jon Krakauer


192. “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”


193. “All at once the desert was everywhere, and I was overcome with a feeling of relief. Sand, rocks, hills — the whole landscape was tinted the same shade of orange as the sky.”


194. “The magic of the desert is hard to define.” – Henno Martin


195. “The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.” – Richard Paul Evans


196. ”Young and wild and free. ”


197. “Take only memories. Leave only footprints.“


198. “A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.” – Matshona Dhliwayo


199. ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain” – America


200. Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly.


201. All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it, all the marvels of creation. – Paulo Coelho


202. “Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in”. – John Mark Green


203. “In the desert, only God is a well.”


204. “I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.“


205. “A desert safari is an adventure like no other.”


206. Call of the wild.


207. Serving you just deserts


208. “I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper, more soulful beauty and clarity like an oasis in the desert. From that place of clarity, a vision of what I could have, what I could do, who I could be has emerged if I allow my heart to become a place of compassion, acceptance, and forgiveness.” ― Sharon E. Rainey


209. “Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?” ― Dejan Stojanovic


210. Camping, bonfire, and music, forget about the rest.


211. “The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.” – Paulo Coelho


212. ”Leave the roads; take the trails. ”


213. “Once again, there was the desert, and that only.”― Stephen King


214. “This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.” ― T. E. Lawrence


215. “It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring love. It has been said that I’ve lived in the desert all my life and do not know what it means to be wet.” ― H. Raven Rose


216. “The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.”― Paulo Coelho


217. ”I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.” — Joy Harjo


218. You can never starve in a desert because of all the sand which is present in it.


219. Don’t listen to what they say. Go see it for yourself.


220. “But it’s all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain, and pleasure—they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.” ― Edward Abbey


221. “Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.” – Taisen Deshimaru


222. “I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.” – Demetri Martin


223. “Do not regret the passing of the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile.” – William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert


224. ”Sand is my favorite color. ”


225. “On a dark desert highway cool wind in my hair” The Eagles


226. “The desert sun is brilliant. It is over five thousand degrees!” — Unknown


227. “Planting myself here for a while.”


228. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them is through the desert.”


229. Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself


230. “The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.”― Mike Bond


231. “The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.”- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio


232. “It is very hard to live in silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silent. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.” – Edmond Jabes


233. “Never met a desert sunset I didn’t like.”


234. “In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground.” ― Charles de Leusse


235. The great, wild somewhere.


236. “What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.” ― Edward Abbey


237. The weird guy brought a car door to the desert. He thought he could wind the window down if it gets too warm.


238. “The desert, when the sun comes up. I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.“ – Tom Hanks


239. “This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.” – Mary Austin, Stories from the Country of Lost Borders


240. Sun kissed.


241. “Having a fan-cactus day!”


242. Palm trees are all the shade I need to have a perfectly sandy summer.


243. “Desert hearts.”


244. “When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it’s like the Saharan desert. You can’t even see across it.” – Henry Rollins


245. “Safari style: living life in the wild.”


246. She is desert. And he is the single drop of water.


247. “The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.” – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio


248. “I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince


249. “When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it’s like the Sahara Desert. You can’t even see across it.”


250. “Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.” – Will Durant


251. “You can‘t fight the desert. You have to ride with it.“


252. “Find me beneath the Joshua trees.”


253. “So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.” ― Douglas Woolf


254. “Follow me to the desert.”


255. “But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence — there you can find yourself.”


256. “Just another day in paradise.”


257. “All at once the desert was everywhere, and I was overcome with a feeling of relief. Sand, rocks, hills—the whole landscape was tinted the same shade of orange as the sky.” ― Jasmin Darzni


258. “Soaking up the sun in the desert.”


259. “I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace – something that attacks you. So you don’t go to the desert for peace.” – Sam Shepard


260. “The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence – free of the networks of dead speech.”― Freya Stark


261. “Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul.” – Edward Counsel


262. Normal is boring.


263. I’m standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in. – Sheryl Crow


264. “The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence – free of the networks of dead speech.” – Freya Stark


265. ”If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. ” — Vincent Van Gogh


266. “Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental at the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into history. A hundred years from now, I will be free. I will have forgotten their names and faces, and the struggles they have will not matter. Time has a way of burying things, shifting like the desert and swallowing entire civilizations, erasing them from map and memory. Always, in the end, everything returns to dust.” ― Jessica Khoury


267. “Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”


268. “You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.” — William Langewiesche


269. “Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.” – Joyce Carol Oates, The Wheel of Love


270. “The phoenix hope can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite, revive from ashes and rise.” – Miguel de Cervantes


271. “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”


272. “Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than then unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.”


273. A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome. – Matshona Dhilwayo


274. “Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance.” ― Jean Baudrillard


275. Take only memories, leave only footprints


276. “If a flower can bloom in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.”


277. Ready to make tracks in the sand


278. Plugin your headphones and watch the sky near the bonfire.


279. ”When life gives you mountains, put on your boots and hike. ”


280. “Feeling good-natured.”


281. Catch me under the stars


282. “A desert is a place without expectation.” -Nadine Gordimer”A desert is a place without expectation.” — Nadine Gordimer


283. “I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of the living desert is worth a hundred ‘great books’ – and one brave deed is worth a thousand.” ― Edward Abbey


284. “The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.” – Campbell Scott


285. Life is like a desert. You only regret the oasis you let pass.


286. Give me a sandy beach, and I’ll have the summer of my life.


287. Windows down, wind through my hair, desert dust in my shoes.


288. “New York is the great stone desert.” – Israel Zangwill


289. Bullet ride and desert camping is every gang’s dream.


290. “The desert sings of loss, always loss, and if you stand quiet with your eyes closed, it will grieve you too.” ― Nafiza Azad


291. “Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”


292. Into the dunes.


293. “Out in the desert what doesn’t kill you just pisses you off and will probably kill you the next time.” ― James Anderson


294. “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” ― Milton Friedman


295. Good, clean laugh – within the sand.


296. “For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.” ― Mary Hunter Austin


297. “Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.”― Taisen Deshimaru


298. “I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has and creates amazing beauty.” — Joy Harjo


299. ”Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


300. “The immense desert, empty as a bird’s wing, inspired him with promise.” ― Mike Bond


301. “Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it’s full of life, it’s full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it’s complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.” ― Paulo Coelho


302. “It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.” ― Duop Chak Wuol


303. “A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.”


304. “A rose in a desert can only survive on its strength, not its beauty.” – Matshona Dhliwayo


305. “Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.” – Edward Abbey


306. “To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like.” – Nicole Krauss


307. ”A desert is a place without expectation. ”


308. When you escape to a desert, the silence shouts in your ear.


309. “Desert, in general, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself. – Maynard James Keenan


310. Sandy toes, freckled nose.


311. “Soaking up the sun.”


312. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are through the desert.


313. Without music, life is a journey through the desert.


314. “I swore this glass was full a minute ago, but maybe it was just a mirage.” (Use this caption on a photo of you with a refreshing cocktail.)


315. “I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.”


316. We’re going on an adventure


317. My favourite thing is to go where I have never been – Diane Arbus


318. A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.


319. It feels good to be lost in the right direction.


320. ”I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. ” ― William Shakespeare


321. But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence where you can find yourself.


322. “Time has a way of burying things, shifting like the desert and swallowing entire civilizations, erasing them from map and memory. Always, in the end, everything returns to dust.”


323. “The planet’s famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it’s not just a desert. It’s a desert so old it’s literally rusting.”


324. “Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.” ― Stephen King


325. “A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.”- Matshona Dhliwayo


326. “There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That’s what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.”– Terry Pratchett


327. “Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul.”


328. “When you escape to a desert, the silence shouts in your ear.” – Graham Greene


329. “The desert was outside my range, it was an alien being, it was science fiction, both saturating and remote, and I had to force myself to believe I was here.” ― Don DeLillo


330. Cover the Earth before it covers you.


331. The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.


332. “I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.”― Isabel Burton


333. “I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.” – Joy Harjo


334. ”Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


335. “Stars are brighter in the desert sky; No need to wonder or justify” – Amanda Marshall


336. “The desert tells a different story every time one venture on it.”


337. “The desert tells a different story every time one ventures onto it.” – Robert Edison Fulton Jr.


338. Take only memories. Leave only footprints.


339. Peace, love, and desert dust.


340. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are dirt.”


341. “Take a journey through the dunes.”


342. Love me or hate me, the desert seems to say, this is what I am and this is what I shall remain.


343. “If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak.” ― Nnedi Okorafo


344. “All good things are wild and free.” — Henry David Thoreau


345. And into the desert I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.


346. “If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak.” – Nnedi Okorafor


347. Surrounded completely! By the unique fragrance of sands.


348. “In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated.”


349. Into the dunes


350. “The desert still has a memory of water. And that memory is a living thing. It is infused into the sand. It is part of its essence.”


351. “You can’t fight the desert. You have to ride with it.” – Louis L’Amour


352. “Just a girl dreaming of the desert.”


353. “The sand doesn’t care if you’re made of flesh or stone.”― Joaquin Lowe


354. Faith, trust and desert dust (take on Peter Pan quote)


355. “Keep calm and take a trip to the desert.”


356. Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it’s full of life, it’s full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it’s complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God. – Paulo Coelho


357. “The desert tells a different story every time one venture on it.” – Robert Edison Fulton Jr.


358. “I need to disappear, escape for a little bit; Take a trip to Palm Springs if you’re into it.”-“Palm Springs” by Mistel Marie


359. “Ahead of me is the open desert, hot and merciless. Behind me is Sand. I don’t turn back; I don’t say goodbye. The Bullet Catcher carves a straight line through the desert, walking towards the distant mountains. And I follow.” ― Joaquin Lowe


360. I’ll never desert you


361. “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery


362. Camping hair, don’t care.


363. “Though one praises all the gods, Birds will not come down to deserts.” ― Miriam Lichtheim


364. “I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn’t know about gurus and wise people. I wasn’t a reader.” – Byron Katie


365. Are we dune yet?


366. Somehow, the stars are just better out here.


367. “The sand has rules. F***ed up rules, but rules nonetheless.”


368. “Call of the wild.”


369. “The land afterward was cleared by oxen, the fallen trees stripped of their bark and cut for lumber that would be used in the construction of the villa, in which the women would live as servants, on whose property their daughters terraced the mountain for orange and lemon groves, where they could see to the east from the peak of Mount Terminus their sons raising swine in the valley below.” ― David Grand


370. “The poetry of Earth is never dead.”


371. Been there, dune that.


372. “Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.”– Frank Herbert (Dune)


373. “Take me to the desert.”


374. Even in the most barren desert, one would still feel one’s heart beating.


375. Forever wandering where the WiFi is weak.


376. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”


377. “OK Mother Nature, you didn’t need to flex that hard.”


378. “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.” ― Paul Hoffman


379. “The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.” — Robert Edison Fulton JR


380. Go where you feel the most alive.


381. “Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple.”


382. “Sun kissed.”


383. Pretty fly for a cacti


384. “Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.” – Michael Ondaatje


385. “This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.” – Mary Hunter Austin


386. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”


387. “The desert works constantly to forbid it, and still the cactus blooms.”


388. “There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount, a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, ensuring that wide, free, open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.”


389. “Even in the most barren desert, one would still feel one’s heart beating.”-Marty Rubin


390. The desert: lands of the lost borders.


391. “Adventure is out there.” – Up


392. “Find me where the wild things are.” — Alessia Cara, “Wild Things”


393. “Noontime here is like a drug. The light is psychedelic, the dry electric air narcotic. To me, the desert is stimulating, exciting, exacting” ― Edward Abbey


394. “The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.“ – Robert Edison Fulton Jr.


395. “I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name


396. Having a fan-cactus day in the desert.


397. Into the desert I go


398. “Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.”― Pope Francis


399. ”Where the wild things are. ”


400. Feeling good-natured.


401. “The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly personal, a sense of one painter’s hand moved by impulse and afterthought as much as by epic design. I hadn’t expected to register such pleasure and sensation. The air was color-scrubbed, coppers and ochers burning off the metal skin of the aircraft to exchange with the framing desert.” ― Don DeLillo


402. “Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.”


403. “A daisy blooming in the desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.”


404. If you love a dad joke or want to impress your kids with a desert pun or joke then this section is for you:


405. Keep calm and take a trip to the desert.


406. Just another day in paradise.


407. “I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…”


408. “The desert mocked the map-makers.” ― Dean F. Wilson


409. “One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing.”


410. “If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.” – Khalil Gibran


411. “A desert is a place without expectations.” – Nadine Gordimer


412. “I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky.” – Aleena Yasin


413. “The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence.” – Pablo Neruda


414. Find me where the wild things are.


415. ”Out here, whenever there's a lull in the conversation, nature gives us a real tumbleweed to break the silence. ”


416. “The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names.” — Michael Ondaatje


417. “When you’re in the desert, you look into infinity… It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.”- David Lean


418. “The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the ocean.”


419. “Everything makes sense in the desert.”


420. “The Gobi wasn’t completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren’t the kind that Anna wanted to admire too closely.” ― L. Ashley Straker


421. The desert: lands of the lost borders


422. “I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace — something that attacks you. So you don’t go to the desert for peace.” – Sam Shepard


423. “This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.” — Mary Hunter Austin


424. “The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.”-Robert Edison Fulton Jr.


425. Everything makes sense in the desert.


426. “Give me some sunshine, give me those palm trees; expand my horizons on Paradise Island.”-Paradise Island” by Paul Maged


427. “This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.” – T. E. Lawrence


428. “Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it is free since it can choose the pace, but it is also unfree since you must go through the desert, unfree since every path in a labyrinthine manner touches every foot of the desert’s surface.” ― Franz Kafka


429. “The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names. Its caravans, those strange rambling feasts, and cultures left nothing behind, not an ember. All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into the landscape.” ― Michael Ondaatje


430. Life is like a desert. You only regret the oasis you let pass


431. “The desert is a place of mystery and magic.”


432. ”Somehow, the stars are just better out here. ”


433. “Desert…is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.”


434. “Water, water, water. There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount, a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.” ― Edward Abbey


435. “As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.” ― Albert Camus


436. “Scenic Views.”


437. “A desert is a place without expectation.”


438. “It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude, nothing in between.” ― Sanhita Baruah


439. “The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.” ― Guy Gavriel Kay


440. The desert surrounds me.


441. “Water is a desert’s gold.”


442. Forever wandering where the WiFi is weak


443. “Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins.”


444. “In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.”– Mehmet Murat Ildan


445. “When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it’s like the Sahara Desert. You can’t even see across it.” – Henry Rollins


446. “Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.” – Joyce Carol Oates


447. “Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.” ― Michael Ondaatje


448. “He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, the day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert’s sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.” ― Mike Bond


449. ”I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. ”


450. “Desert…is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.” – Maynard James Keenan


451. “Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads, they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.” ― Terry Pratchett


452. “Windows down, wind through my hair, desert dust in my shoes.”


453. Desert vibes only.


454. All knotted up within the sun and sand.


455. “Go where you feel most alive.”


456. Really the best place to spend the rest of my vacation.


457. “I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It’s not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees.”


458. Switched out my Netflix streaming for an Airstream instead.


459. “I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occupation.” ― Michael Ondaatje


460. You’re off to great places. Today is your day. Your desert is waiting so get on your way.


461. “The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.”- Robert Edison Fulton JR


462. “Adventure is out there.”


463. Never met a desert sunset I didn’t like.


464. “No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however, faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match.” ― Wilfred Thesiger


465. “Desert hair, don’t care.”


466. “For all the toll the desert takes on a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.” – Mary Austin


467. “If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn’t take Freud’s books with me, because I’ve already read them all.” – Anne Roiphe


468. ”The Earth is what we all have in common. ”


469. “Deserts are barren, inhospitable places. The very word conjures an image of featureless and dunes stretching beautiful but terrible for as far as the eye can see.” – Michael Allaby


470. “Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.” – Peder Soerensen


471. “Anything less than the desert was a dream.” ― Kameron Hurley


472. “On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don’t stop” – Paulo Coelho


473. “Always take the scenic route.”


474. “And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain.”-“Missing” by Everything But the Girl


475. The desert prickles my fancy.


476. “Branching out.”


477. “Got lost in nature and found myself.”


478. “The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.”


479. “She laughed, and the desert sang.” – Jerry Spinelli


480. “Danger was the desert’s breath, and the landscape changed with every wind.” – Zita Steele.


481. “Breathing in the desert air.”


482. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar


483. “The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.”


484. “There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount, a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, ensuring that wide, free, open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.” – Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness


485. There’s no WiFi in the desert, but I’m definitely going to find a better connection out here


486. “We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour.”


487. “The desert sings of loss, always loss, and if you stand quiet with your eyes closed, it will grieve you too.”― Nafiza Azad


488. “I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It’s not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


489. “A forest is a mystery, but the desert is truth.” – Keith Miller


490. “Talk to the sand.”


491. “You’re off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.” — Dr. Seuss


492. “Hold me fast, cause I’m a hopeless wanderer.” — Mumford & Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer”


493. “The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.”– Benjamin Alire Saenz


494. Gone to the desert. Back never.


495. “Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world – drift away instead.” – Beck


496. Aloe my little friend


497. Ridin’ these dunes.


498. “I feel like sand that’s blown away. Back into the storm, I’m inside this dream. That feels just like desert rain.” – Edward Maya


499. “I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.”


500. “Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.” – Gil Scott-Heron


501. “I was like a desert and she came into my life as the storm.”― Avijeet Das


502. “Adventures fill your soul.”


503. “The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.”


504. A desert, in general, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.


505. The desert works constantly to forbid it, and still the cactus blooms


506. “It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drew up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and the vicious mygale spiders and beaded lizards with mouths black as a chow dogs, deadly to man, and the little desert basilisks that jet blood from their eyes and the small sand vipers like seemly gods, silent and the same, in Jeda, in Babylon. A constellation of ignited eyes that edged the ring of light all bound in a precarious truce before this torch whose brightness had set back the stars in their sockets.” ― Cormac McCarthy


507. “This was the desert, everything all at once, whether it was needed or not. What survived had learned to save, live carefully, and keep a low profile, even appear to be dead for long periods. Perseverance and patience.” ― James Anderson


508. Sand is my favorite color.


509. Been there, dune that


510. “Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.” — Frank Herbert, Dune


511. Lost in the desert


512. A daisy blooming in the desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.


513. Don’t listen to what they say. Go see it for yourself


514. Wanderlust and desert dust.


515. “To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes, there’s no sand. At least not the sort of sand you find at the beach. The ground does have a sandy color to it, or gray, but your feet won’t sink in. It’s hard, as if it’s been tamped. And pebbly. And glinting with what else mica.”


516. “This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.”-T. E. Lawrence


517. “Maybe that is the one real division between men: woodmen and desert men.” ― Kurban Said


518. Life is short, but the desert is huge.


519. “Dubai, with all of its glitz and glamour rose in the heart of the desert.” ― Soroosh Shahrivar


520. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are sandy


521. “Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan


522. The desert is a natural extension of the of the inner silence of the body.


523. “The desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.” – Tom Hanks


524. The sky above, Earth below.


525. “Nothing is all bad. There are very beautiful flowers in the desert admidst the spikes and thorns. Just don’t let them take over. In the garden of love there is little room for prickly things.”


526. “I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It’s not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


527. “You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.” – William Langewiesche


528. “I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.”– Edward Abbey


529. “The desert: a land of lost borders.”


530. The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. – John Steinbeck


531. “The great, wild somewhere.”


532. The desert sun is brilliant. It has over five thousand degrees!


533. “The desert, when the sun comes up. I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.” – Tom Hanks


534. “A night spent in the desert means a night spent in the space!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan


535. ”I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. ” — Henry David Thoreau


536. “She might’ve had the skill to get them out of the Hold, but God knew how she’d fare across the desert of Altadis. And God wasn’t telling.” ― Dean F. Wilson


537. “Real beauty is imperfect.”


538. “Never met a desert sunset I didn't like.”


539. “She is desert. And he is the single drop of water.”


540. “Real jungle > concrete jungle.”


541. “The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.” ― Tahir Shah


542. “She was beautiful in the way people call the desert beautiful, which is to say that although some people actually believed it, most of the time it was said in response to someone else’s denigration of it.” ― Chris McCormick


543. “This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.” -T. E. Lawrence


544. “I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe, It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has and creates amazing beauty.” — Joy Harjo


545. “The magic of the desert is hard to define.”– Henno Martin


546. “In the desert, I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.” ― Wilfred Thesiger


547. “Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.” – James Lovelock


548. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.“


549. “To receive the grace of God, you must go to the desert and stay for a while.”


550. “Shall I run back into the desert, and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet humankind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven’t had enough desert yet.” ― Saul Bellow


551. ”Switched out my Netflix streaming for an Airstream instead. ”


552. “Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.” – Khalil Gibran


553. “The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”


554. “Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.” ― Edward Greenly


555. “A desert is a place without expectation.” – Nadine Gordimer


556. “The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.”


557. “I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its solitude. I will be the desert.” – Kiersten White


558. “The desert was clairvoyant, this is what he’d always believed, that the landscape unravels and reveals, it knows future as well as past.” ― Don DeLillo


559. “On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oases and deserts. In both cases, don’t stop.”


560. Heaven on Earth.


561. The view from the top.


562. “A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.” – Michael Ondaatje


563. “The desert works constantly to forbid it, and still the cactus blooms.“


564. Dear desert, I dream about you all the time.


565. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”


566. “I’m standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in”. – Sheryl Crow


567. “It’s no wonder most religions are born in the desert because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way.” – Terry Pratchett


568. Never met a desert sunset I didn’t like


569. The desert tells a different story every time one venture’s into it.


570. “I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.”


571. “The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.” – Robert Edison Fulton JR


572. “You can‘t fight the desert. You have to ride with it.“ – Louis L’Amour


573. “You can’t fight the desert. You have to ride with it.”


574. “Forever wandering where the WiFi is weak.”


575. “You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.”


576. “The view from the top.”


577. I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.


578. Go where you feel the most alive


579. “The desert could not be claimed or owned- it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names.”– Michael Ondaatje


580. “There's no WiFi in the desert, but I'm definitely going to find a better connection out here.”


581. Explore the world and camp in every desert.


582. “Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the desert” – Mehmet Murat Ildan


583. “The rules for survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.” – Bear Grylls, British adventurer


584. ”The desert tells a different story every time one venture’s into it. ”


585. I was born to explore.


586. Life is always like a desert. You’ll either find an oasis or will end up in a mirage while finding one.


587. “#Nofilter needed.”


588. “A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome. – Matshona Dhilwayo


589. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.'” ― Sylvia Plath


590. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are sandy.


591. “No law. No order. No time or space. The danger was the desert’s breath, and the landscape changed with every wind.” ― Zita Steele


592. Desert bathing.


593. “The rules for survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.”


594. I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink – Joe E Lewis


595. “All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see it all in the marvels of creation.”


596. Cover the Earth before it covers you


597. “Good, clean fun — in the sand!”


598. “If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the des