"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:
“What though the traveler tell us of the ruins of Egypt, are we so sick or idle that we must sacrifice our America and today to some man’s ill-remembered and indolent story? Carnac and Luxor are but names, or if their skeletons remain, still more desert sand and at length a wave of the Mediterranean Sea are needed to wash away the filth that attaches to their grandeur. Carnac! Carnac! here is Carnac for me. I behold the columns of a larger
and purer temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)