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Quotes About Arid

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks
~ Michael Connelly
Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road
~ T.S. Eliot
This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised
~ T.S. Eliot
Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine
~ Tanith Lee
The desert has its own currency and it is measured in water.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
~ Pierre Loti
The branch of logic is the husband of all sciences. It is indispensable to rationalize them but alone is arid and does not generate the child that is knowledge.
~ Bruno Campello
In the arid region it is water, not land, which measures production," he
~ Steven Solomon
Some people call camel "ship of the desert". I have named our camel Selene, because she is pale like the moon. She is very good. You will become used to her soon.
~ Caroline Lawrence
Her face looked like the bottom of a dried up creek bed after a drought
~ Carolyn Brown
I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.
~ Irvine Welsh
Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.
~ Susan Vaught
a desert more vast than the continental United States
~ Thomas Sowell
I am filled with the thirst of the desert.
~ Carmen Boullosa
Gentler than the Lanisters is dryer than the sea.
~ George R.R. Martin
But it's a dry heat…
~ Arizona saying
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.
~ Mehmet Murat İldan
Desert — a piece of Earth that God forgot to water.
~ Terri Guillemets, 1996
The desert is a scorpion's tale of stings and survival.
~ Terri Guillemets
The classical view that ancient Sumer was a miracle of irrigation organized by the state in an arid landscape turns out to be totally wrong.
~ James C. Scott
I live in the dry dusty desert Where we're always short on water And even if the sun fell upon us It couldn't get any hotter.
~ Terri Guillemets
A little-known fact is that most American of icons, the open-range cattle industry, originated in El Norte and was based on Spanish precedents. A mix of arid plains, high deserts, and Mediterranean coastline, Spain bears a physical resemblance to El Norte.
~ Colin Woodard
Reno, a dreary town in Nevada
~ Vladimir Nabokov