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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.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Truth
Closer
Earth
Native
Everything
Stone
Nothing
Desert
Stones
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Space
Stingy
Light
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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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No yesterdays on the road.
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Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.
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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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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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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source I have a life.
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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.
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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.
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