“I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.” MotherFatherClassWonderfulMiddleWesternMiddle ClassSalesmanPianistWonderful Family Author:Charles Kimbrough
“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.” YearsLongThreeChristWonderfulTreeCenturyFoolThousandDiseaseWesternWoodsSavedForestsFloodThousand YearsTempestDroughtAvalanchesRedwoods Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.” StillsSeemsCultureWonderfulDyingWesternIllnessStupidityStuckWestern Culture Author:Jamie Hewlett
“I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful religious poetry - both poetry and theology push conventional definitions and explore perceptions that might be ignored or passed off as conventional, but when they are pressed yield much larger meanings, seem to be part of a much larger system of reality.” ThinkingRealitySeemsMightReligiousDealsWonderfulPerceptionTraditionConnectionsProfoundWesternDefinitionsTheologyYieldConventionalIgnored Author:Marilynne Robinson
“The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.” PeopleLittlesNationsWonderfulWrittenCivilizationEuropeDirectWesternFormerGreekSavagesSuperiorityInheritanceSummitOld Greek Book:Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Source: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
“There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun of them, that you almost couldn't take them seriously from that point on. That's why only Westerns that had the stink of Watergate or Vietnam could be taken seriously. There were so few Westerns made since then, from the Eighties on, that the few directors who did were so pleased with themselves and so happy to have the opportunity that they got lost in visuals, they got lost in the vistas and the pretty scenery.” MadeOpportunityLostFunHurtTakenWonderfulDirectorsAspectWesternVisualsVietnamSeventiesEightySceneryStinkBlazingVistasSaddlesWatergate Author:Quentin Tarantino