We've made deserts bloom, you know.

From time to time, the dun-coloured hills are washed with a light green, faint proof for the Palestinians perhaps that the desert bloomed before the Israelis created their state.

There were storms almost as savage as this on Vulcan, the rare, fierce thunderstorms of the brief Vulcan spring that let the deserts bloom in one quick and frantic blaze of beauty.

We want to make our own deserts bloom with our own technology.

The desert bloomed without a thought.

In the fifties and the sixties there was a lot of talk about building atomic power plants to purify sea water so the desert would bloom and all that jazz.

Rosenzweig, creator of a formula that made the Israeli deserts bloom like a greenhouse, had been his friend ever since Buck profiled him as Global Weekly's Newsmaker of the Year more than a year before.

The Pope received them, blessed them, assured them of his prayers and asked God to grant their spiritual father grace that the desert might bloom again and become the home of thousands of hermits.

There are sound calculations to the effect that it could eventually support four times as many, perhaps many more still as we harness technology to make the deserts bloom, and all that.

It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure.