For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.