#desert

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. ↗

— Ang Lee

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Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. ↗

— James Lovelock

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It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. ↗

— Roger Mahony

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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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