Accepting Quote by Edwin Way Teale

The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.

— Bram Stoker

“People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man... The stars,…

— Rick Moody

When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time…

— Eddie Vedder

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what…

— Rudolf Steiner

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

— Maria Mitchell

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

— Washington Allston

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

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space…

— Carl Sagan

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

— Tim Winton

The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ...…

— Richard Misrach

“Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on…

— Carl Sagan