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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.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Sand
Respect
Seasons
Religion
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Spirituality
Spirit
Keeps
Also
Rain
Everything
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Reminding
Things
Thoughts
Thunder
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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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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
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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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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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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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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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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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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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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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No yesterdays on the road.
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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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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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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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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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