“I am not so much discouraged with the barrenness of the plains as I would have been if I hadn't lived there.”

“The fertility or barrenness of the land was linked directly to the presence of ancestral spirits and the moral state of the people.”

“Further, the notice of the husband's age introduces some ambiguity as to the cause of the couple's barrenness.”

“Near one-third of Walton county is good tillable upland and hammock land, while the rest is pine barren.”

“After exploring gentle mountain slopes, taiga flatland and highland barrens, we suddenly reached the plateau's edge.”

“This species, typical of mesic to dry-mesic upland forests, has wind-dispersed seeds and evidently readily invades barrens.”

“The pine barrens of New Jersey is the northernmost range of 109 southern plant species.”