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“the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.”

— yann martel

“Many Englishmen have written about camels. When I open a book and see the familiar disparagement, the well-worn humour, I realize that the author's…

— Wilfred Thesiger

The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a…

— Freya Stark

“The Sufi Muslims say, "Praise Allah, but also tie your camel to the post." In other words, it's good to take a transcendent view…

— Dan Harris

“The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die quickly of thirst, the camel survives…

— Tom Robbins

the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves…

— Rosita Forbes

“the impression made upon them by the first view of a camel equipped and loaded for the desert. Custom, so fatal to other novelties,…

— Lew Wallace

For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty…

— Michael Dirda

“Number of camels it would take for a man to buy me: every camel in the world.”

— Sarah Reiley

“If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I saw the camel put on its shirt An leave without tears for Mecca With a thousand and one Sand sellers and Dark crowds…

— Joyce Mansour

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan