They came about 380 BC into the Upper Westerwald, bypassing the High Westerwald, seeing it as nothing more than a trackless wooded wilderness, after which they eventually came up against the Rhine in the 2nd century.
Originally a wooded wilderness, the U.S. Capitol Grounds today provide a park-like setting for the Nation's Capitol, offering a picturesque counterpoint to the building's formal architecture.
And there was a well-beaten trail into the wooded wilderness of the foothill.
This event, which remains unsolved to this day, took place in the wooded wilderness of the Glastenbury Mountain near Bennington in southern Vermont, where Jackson and her family were living at the time.
Erecting new towns called bastides repopulated "desert" or uninhabited lands: "in an effort to colonize the wooded wilderness of southwest France, almost seven hundred towns were founded during the two centuries between 1200 and 1400".
Tradition says that John James Audubon built the first house in this wooded wilderness, on what is now the NE corner of Loeb and Shelby streets.
Since the mid-19th century Minnetonka has evolved from heavily wooded wilderness through extensive farming and thriving industrialization to its present primarily residential suburban character.
It was then a densely wooded wilderness where Edmund's wife, Elizabeth, often did battle with packs of "hongrie, ravening wolvs."
Adoration in the Forest is a painting completed before 1459 by the Carmelite friar, Filippo Lippi, of the Virgin Mary and the newly born Christ Child lying on the ground, in the unusual setting of a steep, dark, wooded wilderness.
Volunteers continue to journey to Lebanon on weekends to renew the search through heavily wooded wilderness east and north of the airport.