16 Metaphors for wildernesses

To their keen eyes, trained for generations to more than a wild beast's watchfulness, the wilderness was an open book; nothing at rest or in motion escaped them.

Author of "When Wilderness Was King," "The Last Voyage of the Donna Isabel" "Beyond the Frontier" "Contraband" etc.

Her wilderness is a green-wood,her wild man a Robin Hood.

The wilderness of crag and peak and distant forest was hostile, pitiless.

There's only one settlement within fifty miles of us, and you'd never find it, it's so small and the wilderness is such a maze.

Thousands of eager adventurers flocked thither, and thus the vast wilderness that Mexico had lightly surrendered had hardly become United States territory ere it was filled with people, not listless semi-savages, but eager, energetic men, resolute and resourceful.

He was alone and unfollowed, and the girl realized with a sudden grip at the heart that the wilderness itself was sufficient safeguard against a man unarmed and unequipped.

The wilderness was her ally to-day.

The wilderness to the east of Egypt had for centuries been the place of refuge for Egyptian fugitives.

There you are never reminded that the wilderness which you are threading is, after all, some villager's familiar wood-lot, some widow's thirds, from which her ancestors have sledded fuel for generations, minutely described in some old deed which is recorded, of which the owner has got a plan too, and old bound-marks may be found every forty rods, if you will search.

This human desert shall yet blossom as the rose, this wilderness shall become a fruitful garden, and the waste places be inhabited.

As though the wilderness about him were a colossal malevolent entity endowed with the power to look into human breasts, it jeered at him with its voice of the wind.

Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

From the mountains we have but too much reason to expect our dreadful enemy, the Indians; and the wilderness is a harbour, where it is impossible to find them.

At that time Proctor Maddox was the young and brilliant editor of the Wilderness magazine, the wilderness being the world we live in, and the Voice crying in it the voice of Proctor Maddox.

The "Wilderness," as the region around Chancellorsville is called, is so strange a country, and the character of the ground had so important a bearing upon the result of the great battle fought there, that a brief description of the locality will be here presented.

16 Metaphors for  wildernesses