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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Solidity
Goodness
Land
American
Hope
History

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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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No yesterdays on the road.
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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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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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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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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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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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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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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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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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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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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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