We must value the land as sacred and not see it only as a resource. The salve that deserts offer is a reconnection and re-enchantment with the natural world. Within the current global crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change, and increasing uncertainty artists are indispensable to offering an alternative hope-filled view. A deeper spiritual consciousness is being sought by people increasingly isolated, subjugated by our new techno, secular world, trying to find answers and a sense of meaning and place. This is an elegy to places of the earth where typically the sun shines high and bright. Sometimes the most seemingly inhospitable places are the last refugees of hope, beauty and salvation.