...Hath planted his most true and holy world." For others, such as Governor William Bradford, nature was "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men." In such an anti-Christian land, "What could now sustain them but the Spirit of God and His Grace?"...

...moves offscreen only to be replaced by an Indian dressed in animal skin. This is a demonic landscape, "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men," which is much how it had appeared to William Bradford from aboard the Mayflower. Of course, beyond...

...dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild...Neither could they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgahs to view from this wilderness a more goodly country to feed their hopes; for which way soever...

...the Separatists far to the north in Plymouth in the late autumn of 1620 saw a cold, friendless shore, "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men," a place of testing where only trust in God could pull them through. Puritans elaborated Bradford's...

...Colony, remembered the Puritans' 1620 landfall in strategically dismal tones: "What could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men[?]" He continued, alluding to the moment in the book of Exodus when the Israelites finally were granted...

...Plantation, he describes the trials he perceived the Mayflouier encountered, saying " [W]hat could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men" (62). 15. Mr. West does not show any signs of checking pride in his nation's origins when he refers...

...not admired. William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth Colony, famously described his new home as "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men." Taming this savage land was not simply necessary to survival; it was God's plan. Clearing woods, planting...

...East of the dense forest the first Europeans encountered. Pilgrims and Puritans thought of nature as "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men," in the words of William Bradford in 1620, and they cut down the forests as quickly as they could. It...