“Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any
prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the
repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind,
of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in
the transition state of its prosperity?”
- Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
“For your sake, I hurry over land and water;
For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,
And I turn my face from all things,
Until the time I reach the place
Where I am alone with you.”
- Al Hallaj
“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...”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
