Wilderness/extent

Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or extent:

“The man in the wilderness said to me,
How many strawberries grow in the sea?
I answered him as I thought good,
As many red herrings as grow in the wood.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The man in the wilderness (l. 1–4)

“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)