quotes about Barren
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.
-- Ernest Thompson SetonSource : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand
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Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.
-- James JeansSource : James Hopwood Jeans (1944). “The Mysterious Universe”, p.114, CUP Archive
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Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
-- Ken Danby -
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de Terán -
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
-- Louis Pasteur -
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
-- Olaf Stapledon -
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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
-- Robert E. Howard -
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
-- Robert Falcon ScottSource : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.53, Oxford University Press
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
-- Wilfred Owen