The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
The dunes are changeless, just the patterns shift.
The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.
The desert, when the sun comes up... I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
In the desert, the line between life and death is sharp and quick.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
The desert teaches by taking away.
One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
To be a friend of the desert is to be a friend of yourself.
The desert wears... a veil of mystery.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.