wilderness

• And so even the common scrub of the wilderness is aflame with sacred fire: the humble "primrose on the rock" becomes "the court of Deity": and the "strength of the hills is His also Yes, a great God inspires great praise, and in great praise small cares and small meannesses are utterly consumed away. —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
• The first rough conquest of the wilderness is accomplished, and that great supply of free lands which year after year has served to reinforce the democratic influences in the United States is exhausted. —  The Frontier in American History
• Not a single song-bird did they see or hear, and a silence like unto death lay upon the "bush," as the wilderness is always called throughout Canada Far up in some of the trees, noisy crows had sometimes been seen, holding a caucus; but just then even these seemed strangely absent These boys had known what it was to pass through a tropical jungle with its confusion of sounds that at times almost deafened one; so that the contrast was very strong. —  Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet
• The hidden life of the wilderness is here presented by sketches and stories gathered, not from books or hearsay, but from the author's personal contact with wild things of every description SECRETS OF THE WOODS 184 pages. —  Wood Folk at School
• "Yes, the wilderness is all right for a vacation, but I prefer Chicago for the year round When they came upon Ridgeley, both cried out with delight Oh, what a dear, picturesque little town!" —  Wayside Courtships

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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