Deserto
# Deserto

Deserto, em geografia, é uma região que recebe pouca precipitação pluviométrica.
    - My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
       - Masanobu Fukuoka in: The Road Back to Nature, tradução para o inglês por Frederic P. Metreaud, Japan Publications, 1987 - 377 páginas, p. 360.
    - Malcolm Muggeridge in: "War on the Peasants", Fortnightly Review — 1 de maio de 1933.
       - I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where desert ends, green grass grows.
          - Og Mandino in: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968); Decimo capitulo: The Scroll Marked III, página 66.
       - Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
          - The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat‎, de Richard Phillips Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands - Publicado por Addison-Wesley, 1963
       - There is no greater desert or wilderness then to be without true friends. For without friendship, society is but meeting. And as it is certain, that in bodies inanimate, union strengtheneth any natural motion, and weakeneth any violent motion; So amongst men, friendship multiplieth joys, and divideth griefs. Therefore, whosoever wanteth fortitude, let him worship Friendship. For the yoke of Friendship maketh the yoke of fortune more light.
          - The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6 - página 558, Francis Bacon, William Rawley, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, Editora Longmans, 1858
       - José de Alencar in: O Guarani (1857) (Cap. IV, XI)
       - Baltasar Gracián, Aforismo 158
       - Adolescents, nous vivons en partie par procuration, à travers les auteurs que nous aimons et auxquels nous nous identifions. Adultes, nous avons parfois l'impression que les livres qui jadis ne quittaient pas notre table de chevet ne nous sont plus nécessaires ; que nous devons les oublier et voler de nos propres ailes ; imiter ce moine qui, après avoir passé vingt ans à s'adonner nuit et jour à la lecture, se leva un matin, distribua tous les livres qu'il possédait, et s'enfuit au désert.
          - Maîtres et complices, Gabriel Matzneff, éd. La Table ronde, 1999 (ISBN 2-7103-0897-5), p. 14
       - Provérbios tunisianos
       Kotz bair perah ba midbar (קוץ בעיר פרח במדבר)
          - significa que o que não serve para um, pode ser útil a outro
          - Provérbios israelenses