" The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen... The desert is beautiful," the little prince added. And that was true. 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... " What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, " is that somewhere it hides a well..." I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands. "