T. E. Lawrence

“Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.”

“Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.”

“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.”

“Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.”