Casual Quote by Mildred Cable

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

— Edward Abbey

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

— D. H. Lawrence

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its…

— Jean Baudrillard

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

— Richard Misrach

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

“It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The desert is full of things you can’t hold on to — light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships…

— Al Riske

A desert is a place without expectation.

— Nadine Gordimer

“In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover’s name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. A…

— michael ondaatje

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

— Jean Baudrillard

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.

— John Flanagan

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin…

— Freya Stark