But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
beauty, being-lost, danger, desert, earth, harmony, interconnectedness, silence