Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , quote, desert

"And as the desert offers no tangible riches, as there is nothing to see or hear in the desert, one is compelled to acknowledge, since the inner life, far from falling asleep, is fortified, that man is first animated by invisible solicitations. Man is ruled by Spirit. In the desert I am worth what my divinities are worth."

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/10/antoine-de-saint-exupery-letter-to-a-hostage-sahara/

Keyhan Kalhor's way of describing the desert

just don't even think of water..walk step for step

within the breath of the desert