Desire Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

— Hal Borland

I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we…

— Hal Borland

“Westward on the high-hilled plains Where for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veins Frets the changeless blood of man. ...…

— A.E. Housman

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

— Lord Byron

“Crossing the prairie he had learned something that he knew to be a contradiction: that a constant sound—like the slithering of wind-blown grass—can become…

— Mark Warren

“The sun seems fascinated to get closer to this paradise landscape, and keeps dropping half inch by half inch in the west. Tenderly he…

— Edmond Manning

Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

— Johanna Spyri

“It was a gracious evening, full of delectable lights and shadows. In the west was a sky of mackerel clouds-crimson and amber-tinted, with long…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Just as a white summer cloud, in harmony with heaven and earth freely floats in the blue sky from horizon to horizon following the…

— Lama Govinda

“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can…

— Paul Kalanithi

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen…

— Anonymous