And there are
true secrets in the desert.
In the war of sun
and dryness against living things,
life has its secrets of survival. Life,
no matter on what level,
must be moist or it will
disappear.
I find most interesting the conspiracy
of life in the desert
to circumvent the death rays of the all-conquering sun.
The beaten earth appears defeated
and dead, but it only appears so.
A vast and inventive organization of living matter
survives by
seeming to have lost.
-- John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley in Search of America
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