The desert

The desert: thorns, thorns and more thorns. Pink, yellow, black, brown, big, little, painful, painless, on the ground, on your knees, in your shoes, in your hair...
A short thorn lesson on thorn biology:
Pink and microscopic: these get stuck in your skin and mysteriously find their way between the threads of your clothes. Close examination is necessary to yank them out and despite yanking out 10, undoubtedly you'll continue to find at least 20 more as the day goes on.
Long and yellow: in reality, you'll only get caught in these if you're not watching where you're going (...). These guys are easy to remove.
Medium size with hook: Once they go in, they try their best to stay in. They're happy to be hooked into your skin. Give em a yank and hopefully without too much pain they'll let you take them out.
Nature isn't easy, but if you're lucky at the end of the day you'll hear the coyotes howling and see the big round sky full of stars, stars, and more stars... and you'll feel like you're at home.