She recalls as a girl hearing her brother boast about discovering a remote patch of wild berries deep in a forest not too far from their home.

Not a cabin on Tahoe or a chalet in Vail but a remote patch of land without a remotely decent restaurant or hotel nearby.

THERE are many reasons that you might not flip open a phone in the most remote patches of an increasingly cellular world.

Hordes of looters, swarming like ants over a remote patch in southern Iraq, were digging up sculptures, vases, ornaments and cuneiform tablets.

If you know all this about a remote little inconsequent patch like New Zealand, ah, what wouldn't you know about any other Subject!

Explaining the roots and the depth of his environmental sensitivities, he talked about his ranch in a remote, unspoiled patch of central Texas and of the many birds there.

There are well-maintained highways and airstrips everywhere, even in the remotest patches of desert, but sometimes a highway lies where the American military would prefer to find an airstrip.

Even now, many people in this remote patch of Andean cloud forest celebrate the day in 1997 when they burned down the mining camp and ran its owners out of town.

The M.T.A. is a huge, remote patch of New York's expanding shadow government.

I wondered if anyone would hear us scream in this remote patch of land.