“What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book The Little Prince
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...
Le Petit Prince (1943)
“The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide …”
Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)
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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).
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
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