"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:
“There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)