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Deals with the "desert world that stretches down the Pacific coast, and across Arizona and Sonora." cf. Pref.
The Desert: Further Stories in Natural AppearancesBy John Charles Van Dyke |
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mesquite, Sonora, Bedouin | |
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San Gorgonio Pass, talus, Colorado River | |
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air supply, Arizona, Colorado | |
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wickiup, red river, silt | |
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colored air, complementary color, Sonora |
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desert moon, DESERT SKY, cirrus | |
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drouth, air-layer, mirage | |
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drouth, maguey, prickly pear | |
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gray wolf, prairie dog, rock squirrels | |
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bobolink, quail, road-runner | |
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lichens, Canyon country, palo verde | |
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chaparral, talus, buckthorn |
Gordon; and every day, from the rising up of the sun to the going down of the same, pray for his health and vigour. My lord,' said the speaker, rising in his stirrups, 'it is a glorious cause, and must not be forgotten. - Page 26
Was there ever such a stillness as that which rests upon the desert at night ! Was there ever such a hush as that which steals from star to star across the firmament ! You perhaps think to break the spell by raising your voice in a cry ; but you will not do so again. The sound goes but a little way and then seems to come back to your ear with a suggestion of insanity about it. - Page 107
It seems almost incredible but is not the less a fact, that deer and desert cattle will eat the cholla — fruit, stem, and trunk — though it bristles with spines that will draw blood from the human hand at the slightest touch. " Nature knows very well that the attack will come and so she provides her plants with various different defenses. The most common weapon which she gives them is the spine or thorn. Almost everything that grows has it and its different forms are many. They are all of them... - Page 139
Look out from the mountain's edge once more. A dusk is gathering on the desert's face, and over the eastern horizon the purple shadow of the world is reaching up to the sky. The light is fading out. Plain and mesa are blurring into unknown distances, and mountain-ranges are looming dimly into unknown heights. Warm drifts of lilac-blue are drawn like mists across the valleys; the yellow sands have shifted into a pallid gray. The glory of the wilderness has gone down with the sun. Mystery — that... - Page 232
The desert has gone a-begging for a word of praise these many years. It never had a sacred poet; it has in me only a lover. - Page xi
It is a gaunt land of splintered peaks, torn valleys, and hot skies. And at every step there is the suggestion of the fierce, the defiant, the defensive. Everything within its borders seems fighting to maintain itself against destroying forces. There is a war of elements and a struggle for existence going on here that for ferocity is unparalleled elsewhere in nature. - Page 26
... unusual method of supplying water to the plant. Many of the desert growths have it. Perhaps the most notable example of it is the wild gourd. This is little more than an enormous tap root that spreads out turnip-shaped and is in size often as large around as a man's body. It holds water in its pulpy mass for months at a time, and while almost everything above ground is parched and dying, the vines and leaves of the gourd, fed from the reservoir below, will go on growing and the flowers continue... - Page 137
In sublimity — the superlative degree of beauty — what land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding canopy of sky! You shall never see elsewhere as here the dome, the pinnacle, the minaret fretted with golden fire at sunrise and sunset; you shall never see elsewhere as here the sunset valleys swimming in a pink and lilac haze, the great mesas and plateaus fading into blue distance, the gorges and canyons banked full of purple shadow. Never again shall... - Page 232
... as graceful as the lines of running water" (53). In short, contrary to the popular wisdom, the desert is not a wasteland but a constantly changing, phantasmagoric pleasure, "the most decorative landscape in the world, a landscape all color, a dream landscape - Page 56
Sphinx could reveal; yet beyond it, above it, upward still upward, we seek the mysteries of Orion and the Pleiades. What is it that draws us to the boundless and the fathomless? Why should the lovely things of earth — the grasses, the trees, the lakes, the little hills — appear trivial and insignificant when we come face to face with the sea or the desert or the vastness of the midnight sky? Is it that the one is the tale of things known and the other merely a hint, a suggestion of the unknown? - Page 106
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The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearancesby John C. Van Dyke - Nature - 1999 - 312 pages" As the centennial of its publication approaches and the complex story behind its long success isfinally told, this new edition of The Desert reveals an equally complex and... No preview available - About this book -
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Campfires on Desert and Lava: Photographically illustrated ... With new and ...by William Temple Hornaday - Sonora (Mexico : State) - 1908 - 366 pagesReprinted by the Arno Press, New York, 1967. Full view - About this book -
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