wilderness
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By March, 1850, Scientific American declared: “Where the steamboat goes, there the wilderness disappears.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
When Bill Clinton won the presidency 34 years ago, Democrats had been in the presidential wilderness for 12 years.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Search and rescue teams responded to “a climbing-related incident” in the parks’ Sierra Nevada wilderness Aug. 2, eventually finding Whisenant’s body, said Holly Streit, a spokesperson for the park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
But despite that disheartening start, four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist Tim Henman believes British tennis remains in a "far better place" than the pre-Andy Murray wilderness of the mid to late 2000s.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
They went to the wilderness to worship, to the wildest mountains, the deepest forests, as if they kept to the customs of an ancient time before men had thought of building houses for their gods.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
America’s great national parks and wildernesses must be littered with dead relatives.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
AppLovin has an ad platform that facilitates ads surrounding mobile apps, especially games, one of the last untamed wildernesses of digital advertising.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
For Ally Turner and her friend Glynis Mattheisen, it took a three day trek through one of Scotland's last great wildernesses to reach Britain's remotest pub.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"Wilderness Letter"
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