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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

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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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source I have a life.
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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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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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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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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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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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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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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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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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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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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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