A dead cricket fell out of it and struck the floor with a dry desert click.

Indeed, without significant production from the driest desert on earth none of them make any sense.

But it was like trying to avoid a tall glass of cold water after spending days in the dry desert.

Sure, it's a cold dry desert now, but it once had liquid water, maybe even oceans.

Plants cope with hot dry desert in many different ways.

This is compared to the thirst of a person in a dry desert without water.

Or maybe it was only in comparison with the dry, plantless desert around him that they looked alive.

Even in dry desert some- one was always singing, and everyone was talking.

"What is there in this dry desert besides dust, sand and starvation?"

With no more than 5 cm of rain each year, this is Africa's driest desert.