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

It was the farthest she had ever been from home, not only in miles but in feeling. The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the cloudless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness. – James Carlos Blake, The Rules of Wolfe: A Border Noir, 2013

Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions…. That is Arizona. – Federal Writers Project, Arizona: The Grand Canyon State, 1956

[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¡&#