John Muir

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

American Environmentalist

Dan Flavin

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

American Sculptor

Friedrich Schiller

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

German Dramatist

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

English Explorer

Arthur Helps

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

British Historian

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

American Poet

Twyla Tharp

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

American Dancer

Donal Logue

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

Canadian Actor

Socrates

Greek Philosopher

Lindsey Buckingham

American Musician

Can mean a lack of growth or development in business, creativity, or other areas.

Figurative Use

Often has a negative, sad or hopeless feeling when describing places or things.

Negative Tone

Used to describe landscapes affected by environmental issues.

Environmental Context

Be careful when using this word, as it can be sensitive or hurtful when referring to fertility.

Sensitive Topic

Sometimes used beyond human or animal fertility to describe sterile conditions or environments.

Beyond Childbearing

When used to describe speech or writing, indicates a complete lack of engaging content.

Not Just Boring

Implies something is not just dull, but emptily so, lacking substance or value.

Emptiness

Referring to ideas, it suggests a void lacking in thought or intelligence.

Intellectual Void

 For all their travelling, many people think that these slabs of ice are barren of life, but these seemingly sterile ice slabs also harbor their own complex ecosystems and they shape the ecosystems that they pass through. They become mobile, floating ecosystems. Even in the coldest seas,

What's below the tip of...

 don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic. So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from,

A radical plan to end...

 But one of the first ones that will do is Birch, and you can see one right there. For decades now, nature has been slowly reclaiming this quarry, and what was once a gray, barren wasteland is now showing signs of life. He's in the tree.

Spotting the World's...

 the world has lost. How? By making use of abandoned farms. As the market for food is globalized, infertile land becomes uncompetitive. Farmers in barren places can't compete with people growing crops on better land elsewhere.

From the top of the food...

 enveloped the world in eerie silence. Without Parvati, the land became dry and barren. Rivers shrank and crops shriveled in the fields. Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children

The legend of Annapurna,...

 that can survive anywhere in the world, where there's barren desert. We are being very successful so far. Now, here's one of the problems. If you are a farmer, you need five things to be You need seeds,

Bilal Bomani: Plant...

 but for antarctic animals it's like a warm bath compared to conditions above the ice and while the top of the ice is bleak and barren just a few feet down is a busy living world

Fighting Over Abandoned...

 barren of animal life dead logs to anyone looking for animals are fascinating objects you can never predict what you'll find beneath them giant millipedes perhaps snakes or here

Sir David Attenborough...

 It's what's brought me here. To this cracked, eroded landscape. Like Mars, it's dry, barren, and incredibly ornate. The carved canyons, long shadows, deep craters,

How the Mojave Desert...

 world premiere lead the movement plant a tree and let's get the job done for the pull of it let us begin barren land now imagine one tree

Barren

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Negative Tone

Environmental Context

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