Sentence examples for primeval wilderness from inspiring English sources

They narrowly pictured the Amazon rainforest as a primeval wilderness before the arrival of Europeans.

Plumes of smoke from steamboats challenge the vast stretches of primeval wilderness.

The gently undulating Foxholes Heath has the open, primeval wilderness which made the Brecks one of the first places in England to be cultivated by prehistoric man.

She implies that what seems like primeval wilderness is in fact shaped as much by human hands as by natural forces.

The final scene, "Desolation," shows the ruins of the city as nature reclaims it in a return to a primeval wilderness.

As I previously wrote about in The New Yorker and in my book "The Lost City of Z," for centuries most people assumed that the Amazon was a primeval wilderness, a place in which there were, as Thomas Hobbes described the state of nature, "no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual feare, and danger of violent death".

When the followers he calls 'bush niggers' revolt against him, he lopes off into a primeval place, a physical wilderness and mental jungle, in which he's haunted by scenes from his past, and by episodes from a more distant, generalised slave-trading history.

It was the center of a battle in the 1990s between the timber industry and environmental groups and has a strong emotional pull for environmentalists as a remnant of the primeval immensity of the North American wilderness.

I saw wild, open, primeval country.

It became a wild and primeval place.

On one side, the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks, the inviolate wilderness; on the other, people and their histories and traditions, jobs, communities, an economy based entirely on timber.