Sabine Baring-Gould

Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.

English Clergyman

Stephen Jay Gould

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

American Scientist

Richard Flanagan

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

Australian Novelist

Richard Preston

Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.

American Writer

Rupert Murdoch

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

American Publisher

Henry Beston

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Adam Hamilton

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

American Clergyman

Dylan Moran

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

Irish Comedian

Barbara W. Tuchman

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

American Historian

Used to describe things from a time before recorded history, often prehistoric.

Historical Connection

Indicates something ancient, emphasizing a lack of contemporary or modern characteristics.

Not Modern

Often used when talking about nature, to suggest a wild, untouched state.

Natural World

 And he wanted to get away from everybody thinking all the time about genes, and so he said, "Is there another replicator out there on the planet?" Ah, yes, there is. Look around you -- here will do, in this room. All around us, still clumsily drifting about in its primeval soup of culture, is another replicator.

Susan Blackmore: Memes...

 tear this thing to pieces so it's pretty primeval hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully but crocs will take every opportunity to prey on a weak animal or scavenge a dead one we've seen one or two of these hippos doing these big yawning displays which is really a threat to the crocodiles

Top 5 Killer Crocodile...

 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.

Jonathan Foley: The...

 the other narrative is amor let's call it primeval fire and it speaks of fire is a companion on our journey and something of our shared stewardship with the world around us I I particularly like the kid with the fire stick no

How fire shapes...

 there seems to be a whole gang that are trying to force the crops off while they tear this thing into pieces so it's pretty primeval hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully

Greatest Fights In The...

 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

Richard Preston:...

 There seems to be a whole gang trying to force the crocs off while they tear this thing to pieces. It's pretty primeval. Hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully,

Hippo Fights Crocodiles...

 Let's see how. Four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo. Those fossil fuels

Amory Lovins: A 40-year...

 secure healthy and durable let's see how four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval

A 40-year plan for...

 spray and the cypress swamps of southern Florida the warm weather triggers a primeval

Primeval