Where, in this waste land, was the end of my quest?

One hundred years ago it was generally described as a "waste land".

The surface of the town is uneven, but with very little waste land.

Then if all goes well, walk out blinking on to a piece of waste land.

Despite their different stations, love blossoms here in the waste land.

I used to hear it leaving the city and going out into the waste lands beyond.

Brush leaned over the concrete from the waste land behind.

Wexford pushed his way through them into a waste land.

The new Britain may have looked like a waste land by 1945, or at least a bomb site, especially in its inner cities.

This is common on waste land, grassy areas and in meadows.