Wilderness/extent

Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or extent:

“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)