The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.
Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.
Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park. . . The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.
The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert where your remains lay decomposing for several decades until they're accidentally discovered by some guy on a journey to awaken his spirit at the Salinas Pueblo Missions, can I have your iMac?" I gaped at her. "You've really thought this out. "I love your iMac. " "I love my iMac too, and you're not getting her. " "But you'll be decomposing.
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
They are again in the dirt in the desert
If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.
Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?