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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
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Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.
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To say nothing is out here is incorrect to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
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Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
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Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.
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On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.
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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
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...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.
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The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.
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