Operation Desert Shield

Famous quotes containing the words operation, desert and/or shield:

“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)

“Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)