#sterner

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell. ↗

— David Reuben

#come #i #like #only #out

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#bow #camp #experience #fire #friction

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? ↗

— Dick Cheney

#deal #difference #governor #know #perry

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid? ↗

— Matthew Fox

#change #east #essentially #going #here