Western Hemisphere Travel

Famous quotes containing the words western, hemisphere and/or travel:

    In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)