Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
658
AUTHOR:
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)
QUOTATION:
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west…. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
ATTRIBUTION:
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, “Walking,” Excursions, p. 267 (1894).
