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“The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?”

Doe Seems Waiting Mystery Silent Desert Veils Hints Elusive Evoke Unknowing

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.”

Universe Imagination Vision Opinion Mystery Desert Prophet Evangelism Personal Things

Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

Source: The Perseids and Other Stories

“The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.”

Littles Lost Air Mystery Mines Tradition Strikes Treasure Desert Snakes Fables

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.”

People Government Poverty Support Mystery Desert Commerce Agriculture Greece Bleak

Book:The Innocents Abroad

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.”

Knows Feels Littles Doe Past Artist Night Stars Mystery Poet Mere Patterns Harm Desert Gas Atoms Marvelous

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.”

Mystery Illusion Ideals Surface Endless Desert Layers Blank Slate Pseudo Blank Slates

Author:Vera Nazarian