Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.

He knew the big motions of nature weren’t accidents; it was just that his life had not given him enough information to grasp the way of things.