Citations:desertophile

English citations of desertophile

• 1970, Peggy Larson, Deserts of America:

  The Mexicans call him paisano or fellow countryman and he is viewed with real affection by all desertophiles. No animal appreciates the cholla as much as the pack rat, for whom the cactus often provides both room and board. Various species of these animals of the genus Neotoma are widespread, found in western North America […]

• 1983, John M Townley, Tough little town on the Truckee, page 14:

  To unwittingly encounter the fresh, stimulating aroma of sagebrush meadows after a summer shower is reward enough for the fortunate desertophile, and justifies continued tolerance toward an otherwise unappreciated companion of man.

• 2001, TH Waterman, Evolutionary challenges of extreme environments (part 2), in the Journal of Experimental Zoology:

  Among extreme faunas, most arid land animals are small in size, and large desertophiles are in a minority (Degen, ’97). Several factors may explain this relation.

• 2013 November 1, Brian Allen Drake, Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 28:

  Many desertophiles in the first half of the twentieth century […]