Desert Peace Quotes

#1. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes

Francisco De Quevedo

#2. Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#3. Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

Lawrence Block

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. In the desert of despair or on top of the mountain of hope ... Heavenly Father it's you in my life that I need the most.
YHVH ... I worship you.
Lord ... I worship you.

Timothy Pina

#7. Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who you really are. One is in the deep woods; one is in the desert; one in the mountains and one near the ocean

Angeles Arrien

#8. In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery ... To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Tacitus

#9. they make a desert and call it peace'.

Yuval Noah Harari

#10. To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it peace.

Tacitus

#11. ...anyone can make a desert and call it peace...

Kate Elliott

#12. Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Dan Quayle

#13. He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me,

Alice Hoffman

#14. The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#15. The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")

P.C. Wren