Arabia Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

— Shailene Woodley

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

— Neil Gaiman

“Centuries old, but recently widened, the highway was the same road used by pagan armies, pilgrims, peasants, donkey carts, nomads, wild horsemen out of…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water,…

— Charles Lyell

“The city of Jahilia is built entirely of sand, its structures formed of the desert whence it rises. It is a sight to wonder…

— Salman Rushdie

The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the…

— Andrew H Malcolm

“Desert which is immense and from above light brown or red vast rivulets of sand with no human life. As the only land. What…

— Leslie Scalapino

“Globally, each year some seventy-five billion tons of soil is lost. That would cover about thirty-eight thousand square miles of arable land, an expanse…

— Judith D. Schwartz

They are again in the dirt in the desert

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date…

— Isabella Bird