Legend states that Liu Bei, then a minor military figure, heard of Zhuge Liang's great wisdom and came three times to the wilderness retreat to which Zhuge had retired to seek him out as an adviser.
"If it were so, then tell me what you can see in the wilderness.
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill, It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
I'm getting together with people from the Wilderness Club.
Solomon alone, a voice crying in the wilderness.
Jiang Wei had to go off into the wilderness.
" But I must once more tell of the King and Queen, who had journeyed forth with the count in order to seek out the old woman in the wilderness.
For three days the count had to wander in the wilderness before he could find his way out.
-- my new one; a fine great house, with pictures, and delicate decorations, and rich furniture, and no gloom anywhere, but all the wilderness of dainty colors lit up with flooding sunshine; and the spacious grounds around it, and the great garden -- oh, greensward, and noble trees, and flowers, no end!
BIDDING A FRIEND FAREWELL AT JINGMEN FERRY Li Bai Sailing far off from Jingmen Ferry, Soon you will be with people in the south, Where the mountains end and the plains begin And the river winds through wilderness.
But we may go further, and affirm most truly; that it is a mean and miserable solitude, to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness: and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
02) ●One man's wilderness is another man's theme park.
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
) One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
I can take them to doctor appointments, scout meetings, or field trips to the aquarium, but I'll never go into the wilderness, skewer a worm on a hook, reel in a fish, and cook it over an open flame on a piece of tin foil.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind.
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008 In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
I can take them to doctor appointments, scout meetings, or field trips to the aquarium3, but I'll never go into the wilderness, skewer4 a worm on a hook, reel in5 a fish, and cook it over an open flame on a piece of tin foil6.
John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911 In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
" With raging and curses, the Devildeparted, and went to seek the oak, wandered in the wilderness for six monthsbefore he found it, and when he returned, all the oaks had in the meantimecovered themselves again with green leaves.