But I think anyone working in this business right now would acknowledge that attempting to follow a prescribed formula is not less scary than talking a walk across a virgin landscape.
For no sooner have we have touched a virgin landscape than everything is lost.
Mesmerized by the virgin landscape, I ventured on.
Underneath the 60 yard sphere of Good Hope V the wild virgin landscape of the planet unfolded slowly, as in a time exposure.
They seem to reinforce an American habit that is especially prevalent among newcomers to the West: looking right past the marks of human habitation to an apparently virgin landscape.
Britain's church life has been compared not to a virgin landscape but to a garden which has been planted already.
The staggering thing about the scene is the virgin landscape, which bears no sign of human habitation apart from a wire fence separating the land from the present highway.
Its virgin landscape was as yet hardly altered by railroads, hotels, and related improvements.
They had the good luck to discover a virgin landscape that had never been logged or grazed, and that was suitable for use as pasture.
Thus the supposedly virgin landscape upon which the Western settlers gazed had already been marked by their civilization.