Chaos - Etymology. In Greek mythology, cháos ‘empty space, air space, chasm’ is the primordial state from which everything develops. In ancient Greek creation mythology, chaos is the void, the dark yawning chasm.

„Silence, heat and light. The silence flowed back around us, like a filling pool, as I switched off the engine of the car, which died with the usual convulsive clatter and shudder of American V-8s of the period. The silence was not yet absolute after that because the car doors creaked as they swung open; but we were already aware enough of the silence not to want to disturb it, and by unspoken consent we left both doors open rather than banging them shut, and walked only a few steps from the car before being halted by the enormous stillness.“

"The desert is also seen as an appropriate place for fantasies. In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be "desert"), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen."

„Beauty may indeed lie in the eye of the beholder, but that eye must have an object of vision, a scene on which it can fasten, and I have found that scene, and appropriate objects within it, and that light and that color. And all this I knew from the very moment that my eye was taken by the vision of that ethereal luminous mist on that first morning in the Mojave. The desert has me in thrall, and I am happy to say that I am still astonished to discover that this is so.“