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and every single one of them is right 



IT OUGHT TO BE OBVIOUS BY NOW THAT THERE ISN T JUST 



one way to live in the desert. There must be at least thirty- 

 five and, as Mr. Kipling once said of something else, "every 

 single one of them is right," if you know how to do it. Ani- 

 mals and plants have been equally ingenious in finding 

 them out and equally persistent in sticking to a given way 

 once it has shown that it will work. 



In every case the central problem remains the same: 

 How to get water, how to keep it when you have got it, 

 and how to get along with the minimum gettable and 



