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" It&amp;#039;s not for everyone. In truth, most people will hate it. The days are infernal, the nights arctic. The lakes are filled with caustic brine, the springs with toxic arsenic. The hills and plants are brown. So are all the birds. And everything that walks has fangs. So why go? Because on a clear day you can see to the edge of the world. Because at sunset all those browns turn to copper and bronze and gold. Because it&amp;#039;s empty. Because it&amp;#039;s silent. Because you can park your car on the rumble strip--on Nevada 278, say, between Eureka and Carlin \u2014 hike out a mile or two, and feel without doubt that yours are the first human feet ever to have stood where you now are. In a world in which it seems every luxury can be bought, the desert offers one that cannot even be shared: solitude. We spend our lives wanting just five minutes alone. The desert offers as much time as you can give it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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