Having returned last night from a family visit to Phoenix, Arizona, I looked for quotes about the desert. Clever and witty observations abound, but this one, from Professor Ellsworth Huntington (a Yale geographer in the early 20th century) captures what I found most surprising: "As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."
I’ve always loved the desert, despite having been told by friends over the years that it’s hostile and forbidding. Maybe, but its stark beauty bewitches me. The saguaros look almost human as they grow arms that reach for the sky, and the rock formations look like something from outer space.
Perhaps best of all, you can see forever—and in that endless view life keeps rolling on and on, despite the heat and the drought. Life in the most unlikely place under the sun.
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