"Desert rose" might refer to:
- Desert rose (crystal), a rosette formation of gypsum and barite with sand inclusions
- Desert-rose or Adenium, a flowering plant in tropical Africa and Arabia
- "Desert Rose" (Sting song), a song on Sting's 1999 album Brand New Day
- "Desert Rose" (Eric Johnson song), a song on Eric Johnson's 1990 album Ah Via Musicom
- The Desert Rose Band, a country rock band founded by Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, and John Jorgenson
- Desert Rose, a pattern of Franciscan Ceramics dinnerware
- Desert Rose, a biography of Coretta Scott King written by her sister Edythe Scott Bagley
Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or rose:
“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.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“Cling with life to the maid;
But when the surprise,
First vague shadow of surmise
Flits across her bosom young,
Of a joy apart from thee,
Free be she, fancy-free;
Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,
Nor the palest rose she flung
From her summer diadem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)