Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: You neglect and belittle the desert.
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2007) Japanese farmer and philosopher
The Road Back to Nature (1984; English translation 1987, p. 360).
“The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide …”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Dionysian-Dithyrambs
Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)
“The desert is not an island: the island is not enchanted: and the desert is no habitation for men.”
Peter Levi (1931–2000) writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest
"To speak about the soul"
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Creatures of Forever
“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
Graham Greene book The Quiet American
Source: The Quiet American
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
The Precession of Simulcra
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
