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)

“Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)