forward-gazing

Updated: May 12, 2025

She saw now what his hope had been that she would have instilled into her blood the subtle, red, and revivifying essence of calling life in the open, the strength of the wives of earlier years, an emanation from canyon, desert, mountain, forest, of health, of spirit, of forward-gazing natural love, of the mysterious saving instinct he had gotten out of the West.

Zane Grey - The Call of the Canyon