Places That Feel Like A Frontier

Places That Feel Too Bright

Places That Feel Too Quiet

Places That Run Hot

Places That Smell Like Rain

Hold Heat After Dark

Outlast Civilization

desert

Antarctica

trivia

beach

sand

star

universe

Cool Comparisons

Arizona

camel

nostril

Europe

continent

leaving

ice cream

Let's make like a . . . 

sandwich

geography

houseplant

nurturing

cactus

peach

cherry cobbler

strawberry

Thanksgiving

is beautiful because somewhere it hides a well.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

is a place whose solitude opens up as an enormous and surrounding comfort. Whereas the solitude in the city is a confusing and painful thing.

G104 I lived once in the American desert. The solitude opens up. It becomes an enormous surrounding comfort. But the solitude in the city is a confusing and painful thing. In Search of Ali-Mahmoud GORNICK, Vivian (1935 )

The desert is where all ellipsis marks come from.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the locus Dei. — Edward Abbey

is a dry, barren region where there is nothing to be heard but silence.

is just a beach that has lost sight of the shore.

Deserts are just beaches that have lost sight of the shore.

is a region that's constantly in need of a flood transfusion.

is the best place to move if you can't save for a rainy day.

desert, n.All

desert