Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or cities:
“A desert is a place without expectation.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
“Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the
prairies wide,
Over the dense-packed cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee, O death,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)