Arid Climate Quotes

I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.

The plains are almost wholly uninhabitable by people depending upon agriculture.

I've always been fascinated by the desert.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special.

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

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.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent - if it rains.

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

I'm conflicted because I like being in deserts. I find them sort of cleansing, but there's another part of me that hates dust. And I particularly hate dust in cars, so it's a huge conflict going on there.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

I'm not a big fan of cold weather; that's why I moved to Vegas!

No land suits Arab tribesmen except that which suits their camels.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.