Rachel Sklar

My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

Canadian Lawyer

Pete Rozelle

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

American Celebrity

Lynda Resnick

The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.

American Businesswoman

Jason Calacanis

The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

American Businessman

Brandi Carlile

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

American Musician

Bad Bunny

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

Puerto Rican Singer

Lenny Kravitz

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Khalil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Lebanese Poet

Fernando Botero

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

Colombian Artist

Ian Brown

Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.

English Musician

Refers specifically to a fertile spot in the desert where water is present.

Literal Meaning

An oasis is a natural occurrence, not a man-made place.

Geographical Feature

Oases support diverse life in arid regions and can vary in size.

Biodiversity Hotspot

Used figuratively to describe a safe or peaceful place amidst chaos.

Metaphorical Use

Indicates a personal space or moment that provides relief or comfort.

Emotional Respite

Often implies a positive, rejuvenating experience amid difficult circumstances.

Positive Connotation

 about the Elwha watershed and marine systems as being a house the nearshore component of it would be the nursery and so it provides this wonderful little oasis of habitat and food and refuge it's a very quiet place in a very tumultuous world I've been working in

After Largest Dam...

 looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static inky black stillness and they will conclude that the universe is static and unchanging and populated by a single central oasis of matter that they inhabit

Is our universe the only...

 this is the earth our home planet and its nearest neighbor Mars the earth is a lush oasis in comparison to Mars and this is because we enjoy the luxury of life's most precious commodity water Mars did have water in its past billions

What does an alien look...

 butterflies can bring back the wildlife rich countryside we adore but unless these oases are joined up the butterflies trapped here will always be at risk hello youtube i'm nicolette and for today's slo-mo i've convinced i to

Beautiful Butterfly...

 looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static, inky, black stillness. And they will conclude that the universe is static and unchanging and populated by a single central oasis of matter

Why is our universe...

 and conscientiously intervene, deescalate it, show victims a safe way out. Together we can make our beds, our dinner tables and our families the safe and peaceful oases they should be.

Why domestic violence...

 the crushing pressure extreme temperatures and total darkness may seem too hostile for life but incredibly these vents have created oases in the deserts of the deep