Arid Magnets

Your beauty brings life to this barren desert.

It's what gave Asteroid City its name!

Life is like a cactus, prickly but very beautiful. (Shop: artbyergate)

A photo of a tree in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, East Africa. When the wanderlust takes hold this is the type of tree you will see in the grasslands on safari. Imagine the blue sky, the lone green tree and earthy tones in arid landscape. For fans of travel, exotic trees, botanicals and nature photography.

A red earth path winds its way passed cactus in the arid landscape of Arizona.

Science Fiction Desert City cartoon landscape.

White clouds, in the clear blue sky, float over the mauve and gold hills on the Lindis Pass, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.

Sepia toned close up of dry seed heads in field of dying crops in Didyma, Peloponnese, Greece.

Sepia toned close up of dry seed heads in field of dying crops in Didyma, Peloponnese, Greece.

Lindis Pass, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand landscape with golden tussock grass and golden and mauve hills beyond.

Sepia toned close up of dry seed heads in field of dying crops in Didyma, Peloponnese, Greece.

The entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, California.

Shadowed desert sandhills and water in the early morning sunrise light in Doha, Qatar.

Balancing rocks, remnants of a laccolith, Grapevine Hills, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. A laccolith is a mushroom-shaped body of igneous rock which intrudes between rock strata. Here, the intrusive rock was exposed by erosion due to its greater resistance to weathering than the surrounding rock. As it cooled the igneous rock broke up into pieces, some of which appear precariously balanced.

Sepia toned close up of dry seed head in field of dying crops in Didyma, Peloponnese, Greece.

Shadowed desert sandhills with wavy peaks in the early morning sunrise light in Doha, Qatar.

Shadowed desert sandhills with car tracks in the early morning sunrise light in Doha, Qatar.

A portrait shaped image of the golden, tussock grass and hills leading to the distant, mauve hills on the Lindis Pass, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.

Close up of cactus plant with prickles hanging over a blue, green sea in Peloponnese, Greece.

A striking landscape of golden tussock grass and hills with mauve tinted mountain range beyond at Lindis Pass, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.

An old wooden fence post and barbed wire fence with golden tussock grass on golden hills and brilliant blue sky in Lindis pass, central Otago, South Island, new Zealand.

Close up of cactus against the blue, rippled water of the Mediterranean in Napflio, Greece.

Gullies on a Martian sand dune. Coloured satellite image of gullies on a sand dune within Russell Crater, Mars. The source of the gullies is not known. They may have been carved in the past by liquid water, or may be a result of recent landslides. Image obtained by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on 16th May 2009. The width of this image is roughly 1.2 kilometres across.

Close up of cactus against the brown rocked wall in Nafplio, Greece.

View of Smithsonian Butte with streaking clouds from the Smithsonian Butte National Back Country Byway.

Close up of golden tussock grass with golden and mauve hills beyond in Lindis Pass, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.

Close up of prickly, green cactus with copy space in Nafplio, Greece.

Close up of cactus in Nafplio, Greece.

Close up of cactus plant with prickles hanging over a blue, green sea in Peloponnese, Greece.

Black and white toned close up of dry seed heads in field of dying crops in Didyma, Peloponnese, Greece.

Black and white toned close up of dry seed heads in field of dying crops in Didyma, Peloponnese, Greece.

The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located near the Arizona–Utah border. To reach this remote area is a 5.2 mile round trip hike.

Hot sandy desert.

Africa tree, in the arid landscape of East Africa. A wanderlust image of the grasslands on safari in Maasai Mara and Amboseli National Parks. Blue sky, green tree and earthy tones in landscape. For fans of travel, nature and landscape photography.

Cracks in the soil

A prickly, large cactus frames the arched, blue swing door, entrance to this restaurant in the stone pathway in Thira, Santorini, Greece.