Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizi...ng, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since ever they flung abroad in spring The leaves had promised themselves this flight,... Who now would fain seek sheltering wall, Or thicket, or hollow place for the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sun. Tree. Beginning. God in a thicket. Crown. Never-abdicated constellation. Blood.... Barn-clutch of life. Trigger of the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sixth, and of creation last arose With evening harps and matin, when God said,... Let the earth bring forth soul living in her kind, Cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth, Each in their kind. The earth obeyed, and straight Opening her fertile womb teemed at a birth Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown: out of the ground up rose As from his lair the wild beast where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den; Among the trees in pairs they rose, they walked: The cattle in the fields and meadows green: Those rare and solitary, these in flocks Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung. The grassy clods now calved, now half appeared The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with ...scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upset at the young wife's first loss of virtue... in a riverside thicket, a flock of birds flies up, mourning the loss with their wings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm telling the truth. I'm standing at death's door... and even today my sight falls on that thicket on the Tpt's pure banks, just as before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a tangled and perplexing thicket, through which we stumbled and threaded our way, and when we had finished a mile of it, ou...r starting-point seemed far away. We were glad that we had not got to walk to Bangor along the banks of this river, which would be a journey of more than a hundred miles. Think of the denseness of the forest, the fallen trees and rocks, the windings of the river, the streams emptying in, and the frequent swamps to be crossed. It made you shudder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in ...its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »