← On the first night, I went to sleep on the sand a thousand miles from any human habitation. 🔊✎
← He was starting to think he must have got the wrong planet, when he saw a ring, the colour of the moon, moving in the sand. 🔊✎
← But in the end, after the little prince had walked for a long time through the sand and the rocks and the snow, he found a road. And roads always lead to people.
← “I guess so,” I said, and without speaking I looked at the folds of sand under the moon. 🔊✎
← You sit down on a sand dune. You don’t see anything. You don’t hear anything. But all the same, something is shining there in the silence… 🔊✎
← I found to my surprise that I understood this mysterious shining in the sands. 🔊✎
← The sand, at daybreak, is the colour of honey. That colour also made me happy. 🔊✎
← “… Of course. You can see where my footsteps start in the sand. 🔊✎
← But as soon as it heard me, the snake recoiled softly back onto the sand, like a jet of water that’s been turned off. 🔊✎