I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dun

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. – Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941

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You know you live in Phoenix when you are willing to park three blocks away because you actually found shade from a palm tree imported 300 miles from California and nurtured with water piped 250 miles from Nevada. – Author unknown

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Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around. – Nancy Dedera

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In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends… and occasionally the basis of small civil wars over parking. – Terri Guillemets

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