paradise

One line that recurs is an old Buddhist teaching, “Advance to paradise, retreat to hell.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

But the longer we spend time at Arioka, the more that paradise starts resembling a prison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Kanisius and his master Umbu Ana Rara, 31, who is three years younger than him, live in the village of Tenggedu, whose turquoise waterfalls draw intrepid tourists looking for a "hidden tropical paradise".

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

This seems like paradise compared to what the Ellisons and their kind envision.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Even though it was an unseasonably cold morning, there was no doubt that Rio de Janeiro, often called “Marvelous Rio,” was a paradise.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

“Sinkholes are paradises for many rare and endangered plant species. We are continuing to make new discoveries.”

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

Neither Amsterdam nor Brussels were pedestrian paradises in the 1970s.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

Suffice to say they do not find the intellectual paradises they imagined.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2021

In the early days of the pandemic, cities and residents sought to keep coronavirus patients away from their paradises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020

Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari