He traveled across inhospitable lands looking for a place he might fit in and finally settled in Colorado.
We witness the splendor of Sutherland Falls, then hover over Mackinnon Pass, still shrouded in clouds and looking as inhospitable as ever.
London, particularly in the current season, looks inhospitable, nearly uninhabitable.
Of all countries, Germany is the one that can least afford to look inhospitable to Jews.
Matera may look inhospitable, but people have been settling here for a long time: it is often cited as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, in a league with Aleppo and Byblos.
Likewise, the Mosquitia of today looks inhospitable, but in pre-Columbian times it was probably more like a vast, tended garden, according to Christopher Fisher, a Mesoamerican specialist at Colorado State University.
Van Slageren explains to me the mystery of why there are so many plants - the sandy clay soil here in the mountains may look inhospitable but it holds many secrets.
But the imagery all seems equally strange and alien, for we are looking at remote, inhospitable places.
The company has wrestled with how to disentangle its network of subsidiaries and sell them for the best returns, in part because markets are inhospitable and potential buyers include rivals looking for a fire sale.
Other scientists suggest a different approach – by looking at Earth's most inhospitable ecological niches: hot vents on the seafloor, mountaintops, highly saline lakes, Antarctic ice sheets and deserts.
Dr Davies speculates that some microbes may use different nucleotides to the familiar four of DNA and he is urging biologists to scour inhospitable-looking places such as hydrothermal ocean vents and contaminated lakes to see whether some of the life that exists there takes such an unfamiliar form.It will be a tricky task.
