Libyan Sands Quotes

“There was a glorious stillness after the vibration and rattle of the day. The silence was absolute. We were two hundred miles from Cairo, and there was nothing near by to make a sound. Outside in the open one listened expectantly for some small noise, a cricket chirping or a cock’s crow, but nothing came; only a little gust of cold dry air that eddied softly in the hollows of one’s ears. It seemed odd almost that the stars overhead, twinkling with a frosty vigour, could do so without making some sound about it.”
― R.A. Bagnold, Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World

“It was a dead world upon which all life, all movement except that of the wind, had ceased from the far-off time when the primeval Medusa had looked out over the land and petrified it for ever.”
― R.A. Bagnold, Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World

“Those silent evenings were worth many times the heat and labour of the day. Now at last there was no hurry to make the most of the daylight driving hours, for the day was gone.”
― R.A. Bagnold, Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World