Alive Quote by Scott Perry

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my…

— Terri Windling

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

— Stephen King

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

— Stephen King

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

— Albert Camus

Like many Americans, my family and I have spent our entire lives at the epicenter of de-industrialization.

— Tim Ryan

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go,…

— John Steinbeck

I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing…

— Charles Bukowski

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of…

— Werner Bischof

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

I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or…

— Roy Chapman Andrews

It was a big deal to leave home and my culture and my language. But I believed that in America, I could truly reap…

— Thomas Peterffy

“The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a…

— Michael Ondaatje