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These people are falconers, you cannot take that away from them. Even if you take the trips away it is in their personality. Every human emotion is connected to being a falconer. It's very deep-rooted, it's a traditional trip, they like to maintain it to recapture the mood of being a survivor in the desert. That's the beauty of it, its a wonderful vacation for them. – Farooq Al-Elji	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Orange County Lt. Dave Sawyer dumped the victim in the desert and he left him alone to die, fortunately he did not. – Dave Sawyer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It will change balance sheets massively, you can't be paying rent for an aeroplane you have to stick in the Arizona desert and pretend it's not a liability. – David Tweedie	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Promising to carpet bomb until the desert glows doesn't make you sound strong, it makes you sound like you're in over your head. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's a job desert, a health care desert, a food desert, a capital desert and a housing desert. The middle class have been driven into poverty, black lives matter. – The Rev. Jesse Jackson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When I said 'no boots on the ground,' I think the American people understood generally we are not going to do an Iraq-style invasion of Iraq or Syria with battalions that are moving across the desert. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
China is investing $ 80 billion into renewable energy, creating 3 million jobs( and) practically blanketing the Gobi Desert, because they want to take full advantage of their solar potential, together, China and India will be creating the opportunity and investing two times as much into solar and wind as the current global capacity in renewables …. – Christiana Figueres	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The scenery is stunning and the small town friendliness makes this a very special race, sitting around small fires in the desert with groups of runners waiting for the sun to come up and the race to begin is quite an experience too. – John Bingham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The desert doesn't have those biases that we have, to Director Jonás Cuarón everyone is the same. – Director Jonás Cuarón	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We deal with individual people in the smallest and most obscure and suffering villages in the desert and in the jungles of Africa, and we've had programs in 80 different countries on the Earth for the poorest and most destitute people in the world, and that has been, I'd say, far more gratifying personally because we actually interact with families and with people. – Jimmy Carter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
How many people are ready to die for beauty, prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. Absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. Absence of beauty means guilt and exile into a no-man’s land. Life is an outcast’s journey through a gloomy valley, when beauty has forsaken. ("Absence of beauty was like hell"). – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
There is no shade, there is no cover. You are out exposed to the sun, the wind the heat, the reflection of the sun off the white sand. It's a hash desert environment. – Marie Sauter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide. – Ray Pruitt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have 500 kilometers of border with Libya, mostly desert, and we need special equipment to control that border that we don't have. – President Beji Caid Essebsi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This case is indicative of the difficulties of these journeys, even before reaching the boats in Libya, we have to ask ourselves how many people have died (are dying) in the desert even before making it to the Mediterranean. We don't think this is an isolated case but without a systematic collection of information or without a 'rescue' operation we will never know how many migrants could be possibly missing. – Giuseppe Loprete	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Murderers sow death, and complain of the desert. (Meurtriers sèment la mort, - Et se plaignent du désert.) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 8 years ago
It's a bit of a desert now. – Lisa Pruitt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The desert has always been a cemetery for immigrants, in silence and complete indifference. Travelers tell us they often find bodies - skeletons ravaged by the sands. – Agadez Mayor Rhissa Feltou	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One of the more interesting things about desert environments is how people and animals can survive in the very limits of existence, and find very creative ways of finding water and cultivating food in the desert. – George Steinmetz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Then we drove into the desert and went flying, as long as we were in an unpopulated area, we had no problem. – George Steinmetz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I learned to fly just for this project, what I love to do as a photographer is to show people things that they haven't really seen before. And these desert environments from the air, they've never been photographed that way. – George Steinmetz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is really like a desert, where you have extreme low temperatures. – Jenny Blamey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It hasn't rained in parts of that desert for 400 years. – Ralph Mitchell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The situation is expected to get worse by all (climate change) models, the desert is extending… very few countries have the right integrated policies to prepare for drought or to manage it after it occurs. – Mohamed Bazza	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

These people are falconers, you cannot take that away from them. Even if you take the trips away it is in their personality. Every human emotion is connected to being a falconer. It's very deep-rooted, it's a traditional trip, they like to maintain it to recapture the mood of being a survivor in the desert. That's the beauty of it, its a wonderful vacation for them.

– Farooq Al-Elji

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Orange County Lt. Dave Sawyer dumped the victim in the desert and he left him alone to die, fortunately he did not.

– Dave Sawyer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It will change balance sheets massively, you can't be paying rent for an aeroplane you have to stick in the Arizona desert and pretend it's not a liability.

– David Tweedie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Promising to carpet bomb until the desert glows doesn't make you sound strong, it makes you sound like you're in over your head.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a job desert, a health care desert, a food desert, a capital desert and a housing desert. The middle class have been driven into poverty, black lives matter.

– The Rev. Jesse Jackson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When I said 'no boots on the ground,' I think the American people understood generally we are not going to do an Iraq-style invasion of Iraq or Syria with battalions that are moving across the desert.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

China is investing $ 80 billion into renewable energy, creating 3 million jobs( and) practically blanketing the Gobi Desert, because they want to take full advantage of their solar potential, together, China and India will be creating the opportunity and investing two times as much into solar and wind as the current global capacity in renewables ….

– Christiana Figueres

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The scenery is stunning and the small town friendliness makes this a very special race, sitting around small fires in the desert with groups of runners waiting for the sun to come up and the race to begin is quite an experience too.

– John Bingham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The desert doesn't have those biases that we have, to Director Jonás Cuarón everyone is the same.

– Director Jonás Cuarón

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We deal with individual people in the smallest and most obscure and suffering villages in the desert and in the jungles of Africa, and we've had programs in 80 different countries on the Earth for the poorest and most destitute people in the world, and that has been, I'd say, far more gratifying personally because we actually interact with families and with people.

– Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

How many people are ready to die for beauty, prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. Absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. Absence of beauty means guilt and exile into a no-man’s land. Life is an outcast’s journey through a gloomy valley, when beauty has forsaken. ("Absence of beauty was like hell").

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

There is no shade, there is no cover. You are out exposed to the sun, the wind the heat, the reflection of the sun off the white sand. It's a hash desert environment.

– Marie Sauter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide.

– Ray Pruitt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have 500 kilometers of border with Libya, mostly desert, and we need special equipment to control that border that we don't have.

– President Beji Caid Essebsi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This case is indicative of the difficulties of these journeys, even before reaching the boats in Libya, we have to ask ourselves how many people have died (are dying) in the desert even before making it to the Mediterranean. We don't think this is an isolated case but without a systematic collection of information or without a 'rescue' operation we will never know how many migrants could be possibly missing.

– Giuseppe Loprete

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Murderers sow death, and complain of the desert. (Meurtriers sèment la mort, - Et se plaignent du désert.)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It's a bit of a desert now.

– Lisa Pruitt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The desert has always been a cemetery for immigrants, in silence and complete indifference. Travelers tell us they often find bodies - skeletons ravaged by the sands.

– Agadez Mayor Rhissa Feltou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the more interesting things about desert environments is how people and animals can survive in the very limits of existence, and find very creative ways of finding water and cultivating food in the desert.

– George Steinmetz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Then we drove into the desert and went flying, as long as we were in an unpopulated area, we had no problem.

– George Steinmetz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I learned to fly just for this project, what I love to do as a photographer is to show people things that they haven't really seen before. And these desert environments from the air, they've never been photographed that way.

– George Steinmetz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is really like a desert, where you have extreme low temperatures.

– Jenny Blamey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It hasn't rained in parts of that desert for 400 years.

– Ralph Mitchell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The situation is expected to get worse by all (climate change) models, the desert is extending… very few countries have the right integrated policies to prepare for drought or to manage it after it occurs.

– Mohamed Bazza

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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