"The space, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness all produced a state of consciousness when the accepted values of life seemed readjusted, being found to be curiously different from those accepted by day in the busy throng. Day uttereth speech, but night showeth knowledge; and we have remained wiser women for the meditations of those Gobi nights."
— Mildred Cable & Francesca French
Source: Through Jade Gate and Central Asia (1927), ch. "Gobi Nights"