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If you would avoid all fools, go into a dense forest and there refrain from gazing into still pools . . . Thoughts of a recluse. Austin O' Malley, 1858 - 1932

"Where are the people?" The little prince finally resumed the conversation. "It's a little lonely in the desert…" "It's also lonely with people," said the snake. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it, or quick downpours called cloud-bursts for violence. ~Mary Hunter Austin, "The Land of Little Rain," 1903

How is it possible under such conditions for much vegetation to flourish?... All told there is hardly enough covering to hide the anatomy of the earth. ~John C. Van Dyke, The Desert, 1901

What makes the desert beautiful... is that somewhere it hides a well… ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Content can soothe, where e'er by fortune placed,Can rear a garden in a desert waste.~Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), "Clifton Grove"

Desert . . . (one of) the loneliest land(s) that ever came out of God's hands... ~Mary Hunter Austin, "The Land of Little Rain," 1903 (emphasis added)

The Desert is—A brown maidenBasking in the sun.~Ruth E. Meakin (b.1888), "April's Secret"

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. ~Edward Abbey