Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
657
AUTHOR:
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)
QUOTATION:
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
ATTRIBUTION:
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, “Walking,” Excursions, p. 266 (1894). The essay on walking was first published after Thoreau’s death, in Atlantic Monthly, June 1862.
