Idah Meacham Strobridge Quotes

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If you go to the Desert, and live there, you learn to love it. If you go away, you will never forget it for one instant in after life; it will be with you in memory forever and forever. And always will you hear the still voice that lures one, calling - and

Idah Meacham Strobridge

The Desert calls to him who has once felt its strange attraction, calls and compels him to return, as the sea compels the sailor to forsake the land. He who has once felt its power can never free himself from the haunting charm of the Desert.

Idah Meacham Strobridge

The mirage is, in very truth, a part of the Desert itself - just as the sagebrush, and the coyote, and the little horned toads, and the sand-storms are part. To those who know Desert-land, the picture would be incomplete without them.

Idah Meacham Strobridge

Idah Meacham Strobridge

Idah Meacham Strobridge

Born: June 9, 1855

Died: February 8, 1932 (aged 76)

Bio: Idah Meacham Strobridge was an American writer and bookbinder. Known primarily for a trio of works about the Great Basin which mix folktales, fiction, sketches, and nature writing: In Miners' Mirage-Land, The Loom of the Desert and The Land of Purple Shadows.

Known for:

The loom of the desert (1907)
In miner's mirage-land (1904)
The Land of Purple Shadows (1909)

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