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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.
William Least Heat-Moon
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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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Kansas City
Missouri
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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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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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No yesterdays on the road.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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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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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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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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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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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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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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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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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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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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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsĀ But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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