Oman | Frantisek Staud Travel Photography

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye … and winking stars.”
– Jack Kerouac

Sudan Jebel Barkla pyramids

“Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark.”
― Robert W. Service

Star streaks of the southern sky in Bushmanland, Namibia

“A silent night – the most eloquent poem i have ever read.”
― Sanober Khan

Naqa temple by night, Sudan

“Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.”
― George R.R. Martin

Stars above Wahiba Sands, Al Sharqiya, Oman

“Sometimes while gazing at the night’s sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

Stars over Ghazali, Sudan

“Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. There also would be no use for the moon if there was never a night.”
― Tessa Emily Hall, Purple Moon

Milky way above Lion Temple of Musawwarat, Sudan

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare

Landscape of Empty Quarter, Rub al Khali Desert, Oman

“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Barchan dunes of the Namib Desert Aerial photograph

Barchan dunes of the Namib Desert, Namibia

“Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Dusk in the volcanic landscape of the Black Desert, Egypt

“…anyone can make a desert and call it peace…”
― Kate Elliott, Cold Magic

Bedouin in Empty Quarter, Rub al Khali Desert, Oman

“You are a nomad, a wanderer – just like me. You roam the desert and I roam the world. What’s the difference between us?”
― Linda Ruth Horowitz, While the Sands Whisper

Tree of water connects lagoon and Atlanic ocean – Aerial photograph of Namibian coast

“In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

Whirlpool of sand Aerial photograph of the Namib Desert

“But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself. And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God?”
― Father Dioscuros

Bedouin in Empty Quarter, Rub al Khali Desert, Oman

“As I listened I thought once again how precarious was the existence of the Bedu. Their way of life naturally made them fatalists; so much was beyond their control. It was impossible for them to provide for a morrow when everything depended on a chance fall of rain or when raiders, sickness, or any one of a hundred change happenings might at any time leave them destitute, or end their lives. They did what they could, and no people were more self-reliant, but if things went wrong they accepted their fate without bitterness, and with dignity as the will of God.”
― Wilfred Thesiger

Ray in the desert, surreal landscape of the White Desert, Egypt

“In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.”
― Wilfred Thesiger