Famous quotes containing the words desert, hot and/or springs:
“Only the desert has a fascinationto ride alonein the sun in the forever unpossessed countryaway from man. That is a great temptation.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning ones clothes? Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet? So is he who sleeps with his neighbors wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:27-29.
“I hate Science. It denies a mans responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from Gods fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock- scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.”
—Basil Bunting (19001985)