Dark Quote by Isabella Bird

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

— Pierre Loti

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers.…

— Zaha Hadid

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

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast…

— Richard Selzer

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil…

— Isabella Bird

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is…

— Wadah Khanfar

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“A few found a haven beyond the borders of the great empires in the harsh desert of the Arabian Peninsula.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who…

— Hanan al-Shaykh

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

— Dan Jenkins

A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small space of this beautiful…

— Ryszard Kapuściński