Desert Garden

Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or garden:

“Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)

“The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizziness or disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)