The cellar floor stretched before me like some vast primeval plain.

This is the forest primeval, just as it was at the dawn of civilization.

All around us, still clumsily drifting about in its primeval soup of culture, is another replicator.

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

From the viewpoint of historians and geographers, it constitutes the primeval waters that inseminated a number of civilizations and the link between them.

Four fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo.

In physical cosmology, a protogalaxy, which could also be called a primeval galaxy , is a cloud of gas which is forming into a galaxy.

And in the last two to three summers, these invasive organisms, this kind of Ebola of the trees, as it were, has swept through the primeval Hemlock forest of the east, and has absolutely wiped it out.

Even so, about four percent of the primeval Redwood rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected entirely protected in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls along the north coast of California, including Redwood National Park.

Even so, about four percent of the primeval Redwood rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected entirely protected in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls along the north coast of California, including Redwood National Park.

And in the last two to three summers, these invasive organisms, this kind of Ebola of the trees, as it were, has swept through the primeval Hemlock forest of the east, and has absolutely wiped it out. I climbed there this past summer.

If we go a little bit further south in our little tour of the world, we can go to the Bolivian edge of the Amazon, here also in 1975, and if you look really carefully, there's a thin white line through that kind of seam, and there's a lone farmer out there in the middle of the primeval jungle.