We must value the land as sacred and not see it only as a resource. The salve that deserts offer is a reconnection and re-enchantment with the natural world. Within the current global crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change & increasing uncertainty artists are indispensable to offering an alternative hope-filled view. A deeper spiritual consciousness is being sought by people increasingly isolated, subjugated by our new techno, secular world, trying to find answers and a sense of meaning and place. Sometimes the most seemingly inhospitable places can be last refugees of hope, beauty and salvation.