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Letter "T" » the Wilderness
«My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions»
Author: Elayne Boosler
(Activist, Comedian)
| About:
Guidance,
Mankind,
Wilderness
| Keywords:
biblical, directions, the Wilderness, wandered, wilderness
«There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone -- who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
Boone, chimney, chimneys, crowded, Daniel, Daniel Boone, far-out, the Wilderness
«No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.»
Author: Jack Kerouac
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bored, depending, experiencing, solely, thereby, the Wilderness, wilderness
«The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Adventure,
America and Americans
| Keywords:
absorption, conquest, peoples, the Wilderness, wilderness
«So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.»
«These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.»
«This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: / To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, / Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.»
«Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.»
«This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings; / Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
burnt, burnt offering, Children of Israel, commanded, consecrations, Law of the, mount, Mount Sinai, oblations, offering, offerings, peace offering, Sinai, Sin offering, The Sacrifice, the Wilderness, trespass, trespassing
«The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adventure,
Country
| Keywords:
Canadians, colonist, colonists, colonize, colonized, exposure, New England, rove, Roves, roving, the Wilderness
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