Air Quote by David Swing

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of…

— Edward Abbey

“Bird of Paradise, feather among leaves, To the earthy soil I am bound and tied. Anchored by claws of roots and weighty sheaves, My…

— Marie Helen Abramyan

“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us back here,…

— Italo Calvino

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then…

— Ajahn Chah

At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of…

— Mohammed Dib

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t cloaked in…

— Julene Bair

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

— Vera Nazarian

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

— Jean Baudrillard

“True understanding lies beyond the desert”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana