No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert. And no man needs nothing.
— Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness)
12 seconds sound clip from the Lawrence of Arabia movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:50:31 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- And I must do it, because the Turks have European guns.
- But I fear to do it... upon my soul I do.
- The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia.
- Then you must deny it to them.
- You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England?
- To England and to other things.
- To England and Arabia both? And is that possible?
- I think you are another of these desert-loving English. Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum.
- Time to be great again, my lord.
- Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. My father, not the English.
- But my father is old... and I... I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba.
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