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You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.