High desert refers to inland high-elevation deserts of the American West, the Middle East, and other parts of the world. Examples of high deserts in North America include the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert.
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“It is high time we realized that the havoc wrought in human life and ideals by a technological revolution and too long ignored has caught up with us.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“That undefined and mingled hum,
Voice of the desert never dumb!”
—James Hogg (1770–1835)
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