Desert Adaptation Quotes

Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.