Desert Quotes
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Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
Terence McKenna -
That smell—cigarette—it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn’t mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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We must go out into a desert of some kind your backyard will do and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
Brennan Manning -
Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I’d grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
Etty Hillesum -
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas Sowell -
She looked into my eyes. I wanted to look away. But I didn't. Her eyes were like the night sky in the desert. It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.
Benjamin Alire Saenz