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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Travel
Beginning
Learn

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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life it's got the thread of Indians it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.
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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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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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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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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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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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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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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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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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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
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