barren land

This part of the island is the most barren land we have seen in the country.

Like water sweet in barren land it lies within our lives, ever by its unsolved formula awakening us to fuller freedom.

In his day "manured land" generally meant cultured land in opposition to wild and barren land.

The once barren land of this region is now being made fertile by irrigation.

It's a stony, barren land—this part of France—and the fields are covered with pebbles.