“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

“But it is not your own Shire,’ said Gildor. ‘Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

“I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?""But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

“You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.”

“She wants the kids, the cars, the house, and the white picket fence. I said sure, I can give you a fence.”

“The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.”