Famous quotes containing the words west, coast and/or open:
“He is every other inch a gentleman.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (18921983)
“Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coast ... and tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Mans Land.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A temple, you know, was anciently an open place without a roof, whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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