Western Mojave Desert

Famous quotes containing the words western, mojave and/or desert:

“O western orb sailing the heaven,
Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“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)

“Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)