Wilderness/extent

Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or extent:

“Dost thou not perceive
That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)