These three simple words are evocative and powerful. I can imagine bindings with lots of things but thorns! Yes, biblical and a poetic protest of the church and what is seen as restrictions.

This is very powerful and evocative. I have felt this when revisiting a place (like a school yard) that has had buildings placed over the area that I remember as a playground. It seems wrong.

This indicates progress of some sort. The natural world being built upon with a thing that is no longer accessible to all.

This reminds me of the biblical writings of the Songs of Solomon where the writer uses the garden metaphor for talking about the lover of our soul.