Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
William Least Heat-Moon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Main
Changing
Highway
Blue
Highways
Color
Routes
Change
Roads
America
Maps
Back
Colors
Even
Red
More quotes by William Least Heat-Moon
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
William Least Heat-Moon
Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
William Least Heat-Moon
Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
William Least Heat-Moon
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
William Least Heat-Moon
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
William Least Heat-Moon
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
William Least Heat-Moon
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
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.
William Least Heat-Moon
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
William Least Heat-Moon
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.
William Least Heat-Moon
To say nothing is out here is incorrect to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
William Least Heat-Moon
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
William Least Heat-Moon
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.
William Least Heat-Moon
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.
William Least Heat-Moon
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
William Least Heat-Moon
Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
William Least Heat-Moon
Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
William Least Heat-Moon
You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
William Least Heat-Moon
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.
William Least Heat-Moon
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.
William Least Heat-Moon
