Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place,
With one fair spirit for my minister,
That I might all forget the human race,
And hating no one, love but only her!
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.
George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824)
photo by javierblas, 2007
4 comments
What a beautiful photograph. It would be important to recognize and credit the person who did it. Thank you for such special Friday morning inspiration;look forward to more.
Thank you Rachel, for some reason the photo credit dropped off the post. We have rectified it thanks to your reminder.
Amazing Photo … i will use it as a desktop background đ
It is of the Rub’ al Khali, sometimes familiarly called The Empty Quarter, which as you no doubt know, covers some 650,000 square kilometers of the Kingdom, Oman, the UAE and Yemen. Its elevation varies from sea level to 800 meters (2600 feet). It is classified as hyper-arid, with temperatures as high as 51C and annual rainfall of no more than 35 millimeters (1.4′) You might enjoy looking at this.