The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers.

~ Shannon Mullen

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Western technology made slavery unnecessary, Western ideas made it intolerable.

~ Bernard Lewis

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The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.

~ Osho

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The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple, to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.

~ Mike Bond

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It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

~ Jerry Spinelli

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If rise of sun from east and fall in the west is the indicator of God’s existence, my standing dick every morning might also prove something.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

~ Wallace Stegner

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Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

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So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the oldfield pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. IT is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

~ Robert Penn Warren

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