Desolation is Key: The ebb and flow of the Salton Sea

The weird solitude, the great silence, the grim desolation, are the very things with which every desert wanderer eventually falls in love. You think that very strange perhaps? Well, the beauty of the ugly was sometimes a paradox, but today people admit its truth, and the grandeur of the desolate is just as paradoxical, yet the desert gives its proof.