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nature's barbed wire, growing thorns specifically to ruin your shortcut and shred your shins
animal fortressrabbits and birds nest where predators can't follow
old englishname literally means thick-set place of growth
fire fueldense underbrush turns wildfires into unstoppable infernos
legal metaphorthicket of regulations describes hopeless bureaucratic tangles
hedge ancestormedieval thickets became deliberate defensive boundaries