" The wilderness is a place without paths. Its geography is unknown and unmapped. Wandering is what one does in the wilderness because nothing else is possible. To walk a straight path through the wilderness requires outside assistance, such as a pillar of fire—or GPS. If the metaphorical wilderness serves some purpose in our lives, that purpose is found primarily in waiting and in stillness. We may move in the wilderness, but we never arrive. Like the lines of our patio, we drift away from true, though in my experience such drifting often returns us to a deeper truth we could not have received before our wandering began. "

― Christie Purifoy , Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace