Palm trees and empty landscapes are central themes of his work.

Then she went up on deck and sat looking out over the flat empty landscape at the sunset.

"Take all the time you want, Davlin," she called out to the empty landscape.

I looked out at the empty landscape, then withdrew to head up valley.

She didn't look directly at him, instead surveying the empty landscape around them, looking for movement.

Or simply because he was the only other living being in this empty landscape?

Flying toward it from eastern Tanzania, you see only an empty landscape.

He seemed to be the only creature alive in this immense, empty landscape.

Two men spend several hours as the only figures in a vast, empty landscape.

He was intently scanning the empty landscape on all sides.