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Example sentences for: wilderness

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At the time it was built, many thought it absurd to have a tree-lined boulevard running through what was practically a wilderness.
Both the NYT and LAT run front-page pieces reporting that on Monday, the Clinton administration decided to allow Conoco to conduct oil drilling on a federal property in Utah where last year, during the election, Clinton established a national monument to protect the wilderness from development.
In the New York Review of Books , Michael Wood says Wills resorted to "a bundle of rather weary paradoxes: the lost but unforgettable frontier, the wilderness which is society's favorite dream."
The million-acre wilderness of Olympic National Park at the peninsula's heart caught my imagination, as did the region's keen-edged inhabitants.
I'm talking about the REI Army, those legions of gear-obsessed soldiers who suit up every weekend and drive into the hills, dead set on hunting down and killing their God-given portion of wilderness transcendence.