Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tea...rin' sort of a feller?... Git out of this warming-pan, ye holly-hocks, and go out to the West where you may be seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly t...o them.... The job was a great national one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute;... From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hard-working artist he needed rest, needed to ...escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who cares that he fell back to the sea? See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down... while his sensible daddy goes straight into town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates... Of snails, musician of pears, principium And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig Of things, this nincompated pedagogue, Preceptor to the sea?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh...-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »