Waris Dirie

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.

Somali Model

Atticus Shaffer

I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that's why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains.

American Actor

Benicio Del Toro

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Joy Harjo

I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

American Poet

Reinhold Messner

The Dolomites are the most beautiful rock mountains in the world, but in a few million years they will just be desert.

Italian Explorer

Patrick McGoohan

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Mena Massoud

There is such a peace out in the middle of the desert. There's nothing like it.

Egyptian Actor

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

French Writer

George Carlin

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

American Comedian

Pat Conroy

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

American Writer

Deserts can be cold too, like Antarctica; temperature isn't a defining feature.

Not always hot

Deserts often symbolize emptiness or vastness in literature and films.

Cultural Symbol

Deserts have more than just sand; some have rocks, mountains, and even ice.

Common Misconception

Deserting someone is seen as a negative trait, implying neglect or abandonment.

Negative Connotation

Using 'desert' can evoke feelings of betrayal when referring to personal relationships.

Emotionally Charged

In military context, desertion is a grave crime and can have severe consequences.

Serious Offense

Military desertion implies shirking responsibility or duty purposefully.

Duty-related

'Just deserts' is an idiom used to say someone got what they deserved.

Idiomatic Expression

 how helpful they are in your current situation. And because we only get to choose one of the options, we also have to consider its opportunity cost, or what we lose by giving up the other choice. After all, it doesn't matter how much you could get from selling the diamond if you never make it out of the desert.

The paradox of value -...

 in this desert like environment. Of course milk is a big part of their diet Any dairies and a lot of side product as well from milk. They have a great intimacy with the animal world that really touched me. They even talk to each other in the way they would talk to their horses. It was quite surprising at first

We Are What We Eat:...

 we find the coldest deserts on the earth lifestyle survive here surprisingly tardigrades the earth hardest organisms thrive fair and what and they live inside rocks the next time someone asks you to imagine an alien I hope your aliens look a little bit more like my aliens and that you remember they're

What does an alien look...

 one of the great inland seas of the world. But there's kind of a paradox here, because it looks like it's surrounded by desert. Why is this sea here? The reason it's here is because, on the right-hand side, you see two little rivers kind of coming down through the sand, feeding this basin with water.

Jonathan Foley: The...

 This is one of planet Earth's greatest spectacles. It's rarely seen on this scale and it won't last long. Once the food has gone, the steady roar of a billion beating locust wings will once again be replaced by nothing more than the sound of the desert wind.

Swarm Of Locusts DEVOUR...

 giving your offspring a good start in life can take a lot of effort so some insects have evolved highly complex strategies to induce other species to become nurse maids on their behalf this californian desert hardly seems to

Sir David Attenborough...

 Our planet's diverse thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they're actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks,

Why is biodiversity so...

 The hunter pays tribute to his quarry's courage and strength with ceremonial gestures that ensure that its spirit returns to the desert sands from which it came.

The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...

 the desert rain frog to avoid frying to a crisp by day this amphibian hides deep in the sand but when the conditions are just right

Tiny Frog Faces Night...

 but the economics of desert survival is a numbers game and for the moment at least this communal life is the key to her future