For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars. Mary Austin
Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil. Golda Meir
A desert is a place without expectation. Nadine Gordimer
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. John Steinbeck
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. Antoine de Saint-Exupery