Desert Survival Quotes

#1. As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.

C. JoyBell C.

#2. Because if you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. Survival in a desert, then, requires that you lose this fragmentation, and fast. It is not a mystical experience, or rather, it is dangerous to attach these sorts of words to it.

Robyn Davidson

#3. The Lord made what was once the desolation of the Palestine Mandate fertile again, as modern-day Israel, and if He so wills it, He will do the same for the Ilemi Triangle, for his own glory. The desert will bloom.

James Wesley, Rawles

#4. A single three-bladed fan turned slowly in the centre of the ceiling, barely disturbing the scorching air which filled the small prefabricated hut like an oven...

Kevin Cowdall

#5. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

Nelson Mandela

#6. The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Bear Grylls

#7. Wit is well-bred insolence.

Aristotle.

#8. Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

Larry Harvey

#9. Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

Mike Bond

#10. Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Donald Trump

#11. The only journey worth taking is the spiritual journey within.

Debasish Mridha

#12. In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

Terry Tempest Williams

#13. Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

Tim Cope

#14. 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

#15. She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island
but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die.

Stewart O'Nan

#16. Oh, I think we should name your penis the Vampire Lestat.

Darynda Jones

#17. Maybe I should stop while I'm ahead

Nay, I swim with sea-demons

no sweet summer tuned radio

over my sunless desertscape

how does it burn without the sun?

Moonshine Noire

#18. For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Saul Bellow

#19. We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Elizabeth Bowen

#20. I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and obvious.

Chelsea Leyland

#21. Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!

Ruth Westheimer