Western tradition can refer to:
- Western culture
- Western mystery tradition
- The Western Tradition, a 1989 television series of lectures by Eugen Weber
- American Tradition Partnership, a political organization also known as Western Tradition Partnership
- Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Attorney General of Montana, a United States Supreme Court case regarding campaign finance
Famous quotes containing the words western and/or tradition:
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one’s childhood, or of a storm at sea ...”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)