“Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America.”
Bruce Babbitt
“Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.”
Bible
“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.”
Havelock Ellis
“The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples”
Walter Lippmann
“I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.”
“And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.”
“From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.”