wilderness

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

A wilderness of sweets.

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and, as he read, he wept, and trembled; and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do?

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O Let them be left, wildness and wet: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Best friend, my wellspring in the wilderness!