Arabia
“Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did,
had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching
disintegration of his society and the destruction of his beliefs. Here
especially it seemed that the evil that comes with sudden change would
far outweigh the good.
While I was with the Arabs I wished only to live
as they lived and, now that I have left them, I would gladly think that
nothing in their lives was altered by my coming. Regretfully, however, I
realize that the maps I made helped others, with more material aims, to
visit and corrupt a people whose spirit once lit the desert like a
flame.”
― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands