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

…letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon. – Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall

[T]he University of Arizona, a very fine school, well liked and spoken of by everybody that knows about it. – Will Rogers (1879–1935) [Go Wildcats! —tεᖇᖇ¡&#

In the desert, I had discovered the West of my imagination, my childhood canyon infinitely magnified. I went there for inspiration and insight. – Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning, 2014