- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deserts Quotes
Vast, dry landscapes and what they represent.
These quotes treat deserts as both a literal landscape and a symbol of hardship, including a reference to Moses leading a tribe across the Sinai desert. Others focus on deserts as fragile spaces reshaped by shifting climate conditions.
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- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
- Kingdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 3,500 years ago, when a patriarch called Moses was supposed to be leading a tribe of Seth's descendants out of the deserts of the Sinai Peninsula, another tribe of shepherds and pastoralists had already established a small kingdom for itself at Balkh.
- Environmentalists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do environmentalists really believe that green progress means looking out at America's majestic mountains, forests, green oceans, wilderness areas and deserts and viewing miles upon miles of nothing but windmills and solar paneling?
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Monster Hunter' world includes these huge deserts that make the Gobi Desert look like a sandbox, and they have ships that sail through the sand.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to lose the nourishment. The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires.
- Breath
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
From space, the earth appears predominantly blue; the clouds are brilliant white. Surprisingly, you don't see much green, although Ireland looks green, and so do Scandinavia and New Zealand. The deserts are brick red and really stand out.
- Grows
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- Nov 07, 2020
We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020