{"quotes":[{"text":"Often I would hear other people ask, “When will I be normal again?”What you don’t often hear is a blunt truth: things will never be normal again. Not the “old' normal at least. You have to invent the new normal.I knew that I needed to take an honest appraisal of my life. Were my problems really bigger than me? Of course not. That’s why I remained in constant motion. Resistance to life’s changes meant death. No matter how depressing and bleak my past looked, I knew that I needed to keep moving and adapting in order to survive.","author":"Michelle Dallocchio","tags":["change","death","desert","homecoming","military","travel","war"],"id":86,"author_id":"Michelle+Dallocchio"},{"text":"If you want water, do not go to desert...","author":"Alen Sargsyan","tags":["desert","water"],"id":1823,"author_id":"Alen+Sargsyan"},{"text":"Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then —May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["adventure","blessing","desert","nature","wilderness"],"id":5756,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["animals","depravity","desert","friends","jungle","men","mundanity"],"id":7536,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.","author":"Alan Kinross","tags":["breath","dark","death","desert","foreboding","silence","stars"],"id":8745,"author_id":"Alan+Kinross"},{"text":"One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["death","desert"],"id":9035,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["books","bravery","desert","sacrifice"],"id":10561,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.","author":"Omar Khayyam","tags":["men","desert","face "],"id":14412,"author_id":"Omar+Khayyam"},{"text":"Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.","author":"Philippe Cousteau","tags":["change","golf","desert "],"id":19668,"author_id":"Philippe+Cousteau"},{"text":"We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.","author":"Alwyn Hamilton","tags":["desert","love","war"],"id":26698,"author_id":"Alwyn+Hamilton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":165,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}