Arid Land Quotes

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

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

Yeruham's small. You walk five minutes, and you're in the desert.

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.