I've always been fascinated by the desert.
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.
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. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.
The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.
