Art Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into…

— Henry David Thoreau

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from…

— Henry David Thoreau

Westward, ever westward.

— Henry Wells

“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

“From the very beginning perplexing and wandering from one ocean to another an everlasting wander”

— Rixa White

“Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the…

— Charlotte Brontë

“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core of my…

— Edward Said

“Beneath the current of our existence and within it, there is another current flowing in the opposite direction. In this life we go from…

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,”

— Heath White

“The voyage on the common sea towards some unknown place is perhaps more human than the abstract path to the world’s void.”

— Fernando Pessoa