In Literature and Popular Culture
- In the book The Land of Little Rain the author Mary Hunter Austin wrote that the desert of the Death Valley "begins with the creosote."
- In the classic science fiction series Dune by Frank Herbert, the Fremen inhabitants of the planet Arrakis rub the juices of the creosote bush into the palms of their hands to prevent water loss through the skin.
- King Creosote, is a nickname of an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland.
- In the 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando Bloom's character Balian utters the line "A spark and a creosote bush, there is your Moses, there is your religion", suggesting that the burning bush in the Bible was a simple creosote bush being sparked by a thrown rock.
- In a 2006 Survivorman Episode "Sonoran Desert", Les Stroud burns Creosote and allows the smoke to run across his skin. Stroud claims that the smoke from the Creosote bush has 69 chemicals in it which kill bacteria. He claims this includes the bacteria that creates body odor.
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