the sun is an orange ball dipping behind the dunes. and there is silence. a silence so deep, the sound of my pen scratching on my notepad has never seemed so loud. the slightest of breezes blows, and it feels as if the whole world is alive, quietly, here. this surely is one of the most beautiful places i've ever seen, this unending sand of the Empty Quarter. i think of how everyone should see it, along with the unending ice of the arctic and the unending blue of the deep ocean.












