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“Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough ...”
“Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like push-ups about a foot away from his face.”
“Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.”
“The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.”
“If you want water, do not go to desert...”
“The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream liv...”
“During the night a fine, delicate summer rain had washed the plains, leaving the morning sky crisp and clean. The sun shone warmsoon to bake the earth dry. It cast a purple haze across the plainlik...”
“Light and air what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!”
“The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparra...”
“The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the ...”
“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.”
“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”
“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”
“I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.”
“In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inhe...”
“Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.”
“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancien...”
“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that r...”
“I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t cloaked in forest, nor draped in green. Green was pastoral...”
