Operation Desert

Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or desert:

“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

“A desert is a place without expectation.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)