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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.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

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.

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.