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“Beyond the range I saw the so-called Mono Desert, lying dreamily silent in thick purple light—a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . . ” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“What makes the desert beautiful . . . is that somewhere it hides a well...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural...” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; seeing none before myself had ever written of that country, wherein are above five-and-twenty kingdoms...” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“The house, the stars, the desert—what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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