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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
William Least Heat-Moon
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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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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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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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...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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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.
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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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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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It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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No yesterdays on the road.
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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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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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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