“For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.”— T. E. Lawrence
“For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.”— Mary Hunter Austin
“This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.”— Mary Hunter Austin
“The desert reveals itself nakedly and cruelly, with no mitigating circumstance of grass or trees.”— Paul Bowles
“The sword also means clean-ness and death. So does the desert, just as clean and just as potent.”— T. E. Lawrence