But do these oases for nomads actually play the social role of third places?
Thus, Bedouins do not carry their own water, because they know where the oases are.
This website pays tribute to those relics of the 1950s that were oases for the weary traveler.
The artists and writers and career escapees are already here, and with them scattered oases of luxury restaurants and boutiques.
Winding through these oases are little lanes that you can explore, taking you far from the big city bustle of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
"Gardens can be important oases for butterflies - sometimes you can see more of them in gardens than on a country walk, " Dr Brereton said.
Schools for the rich, traditionally oases of relative excellence, will likely see standards fall as an influx of underprepared students are rammed into classrooms by fiat.
By giving victims a little pro bono assistance, lawyers can help make our nation's dinner tables, homes and families the safe and peaceful oases they should be.
The last significant mountains before the Sahara are the arid, pink-and-ochre-coloured chain of the Anti Atlas, and beneath the arid, jagged mass of its two major peaks lie lush irrigated valleys and a string of oases.
With remarkable accuracy, the pilots on the James Cook used an acoustic navigation system to "fly" the robot over the rock three miles (4.8km) down towards the oases of life thriving around the vents.
Childe ascribed the shift to climate change, to conditions that dried up the lush forests and plains: humans and animals were drawn together at the last remaining oases, where proximity led to domestication, sedentism, and agriculture.
The twin landers, each the size of a desk and weighing 375 pounds (170 kilograms), will ramble dozens of meters a day, drilling into rocks and scooping up soil in preliminary field studies to help identify ancient oases.
Crossing downtown Seoul is the Cheonggye stream -- a river that was covered by a road until it was unearthed in 2005 and transformed into one of the city center's most popular urban oases and worth a stroll in the evening.
"We all admire the beaver for the way it can turn a linear river into a lake with a dam, but the termites turning the desert into a pattern of oases that allow permanent life even in drought periods for hundreds of years - that's much more fascinating, " he told BBC News.
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