What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.
The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.
For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.
Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?
Jews don't camp. . . The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.
You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.
The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.