Sentence examples for patch of wilderness from inspiring English sources

The claims are mining claims, a government license to extract minerals from a 50-acre patch of wilderness.

The cabin stands not far from here, built by Vernon's father on a rich stretch of land, a quiet patch of wilderness.

Are we at a point where we need to destroy our last sovereign patch of wilderness because we have exhausted all other means of reconciling our energy demands?

Along came Fifa, building Football House on a patch of wilderness for less than half a million dollars, according to the site.

The Kenwood Ladies Pondd, on Hampstead Heath, a patch of wilderness in North London, is surrounded by trees and populated by ducks.

In the age of Instagram and Google Earth it is easy to believe — it is sometimes hard not to believe — that every inch of the planet, every human face and patch of wilderness, has been snapped up and uploaded.

But this forest, far from being a mysterious realm, has become one of the most cultivated, modified and nurtured patches of wilderness anywhere.

New roads are carving up the remaining patches of wilderness, fragmenting the apes' home ranges and stranding the animals in islands of trees surrounded by the thrum of human activity.

One, a ruined three-storey cathedral-like building hidden deep in one of the city's many surviving patches of wilderness, was recently identified as a 14th-century palace.

From the depths of South Asian rain forests to the shrinking patches of wilderness tucked in California's megalopolises, automated cameras have become a preferred tool of conservation biologists trying to study rare and reclusive animal species.

But, as any visit to Monte do Carmo demonstrates, it is not merely the livelihood of the corticeiros that depends on our choosing traditional corks, it's these unique patches of wilderness in the heart of mainland Europe, home to Iberian lynx, booted eagles and wild boar.