In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
-- Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
-- Richard Feynman
“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”-- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.”
-- Tom Hanks
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”
-- Stephen King, The Gunslinger
"To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with
everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to
the truth."-- William Least Heat-Moon
Where is my oasis? Too far from
here for me to crawl with these
dead legs, refusing to co-operate
Hands and fingers clawing uselessly
through the grains of sand...
-- Kiera Woodhull
A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory
Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire,
And airy tongues, that syllable men's names
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
-- John Milton, Extract from Comus
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
-- Maria Muldaur
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