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Desert...
The most fascinating place on the earth's surface. Silence and emptiness cuts into the deepest mind and releases man's spirit from prison of human imperfection.
Desert ... beautiful and vital.

Death Valley National Park shows the desert at it most extreme. Banked by sheer mountain ranges, the 190 mile-long valley is a world unto itself. It is the hottest and most arid region in the country yet fascinating in its geological complexity. Nature has never worked with greater abandon than in Death Valley, producing fault scarps, alluvial fans, volcanic craters, sand dunes, percolating salt plains, multi-colored hills, twisting canyons, and the lowest spot - 86 metres below sea level - in the Western Hemisphere.

"The desert is beautiful," the little prince added.

And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
The Little Prince