And toothpastes, how vast are their powers, freshening the foul, fortifying the weak, soothing the sensitive.
Clearly, any firm that talks about "a shortage in this valuable asset [land] in the future" is unaware of just how vast Brazil is.
"It's very difficult to say how vast this is," said Ben Wilcox, executive director of Common Cause of Florida.
Even with the likes of Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson waxing eloquent about stardust and the millions, billions, and trillions of celestial objects that light the night sky, it's hard to realistically fathom just how vast space is.
This country is the size of Jupiter and you can tell how vast that is because, when the Aussies wanted to give a name to the biggest thing in their lives, the dearest thing to their hearts, it's what they decided to call a chain of casinos.
In the end, what matters is the wonder of our planet: "The sky above, how vast it is!" Set to Franz Schubert's "Die schöne Müllerin," The Wanderer follows Wilhelm Müller's tragic lyrics about a miller who travels the region aided by his friend, the Brook, who delineates his path with her watery zigs and zags.
The first thing that amazed me was how big Vast was.
And when you feel high and mighty, come back here and look out at the ocean and how vast it is and look beneath you and know from both that your life is like a blink of an eye, like a grain of sand.' " His mother, he said, always left messages on a board in their breakfast nook but this one always remained above them all: "Hard work, perseverance, savings, charity".
Back in a modern kitchen, you suddenly notice how vast everything is – 28cm has become a normal diameter for a dinner plate, which in the 1950s would have been 25cm.
