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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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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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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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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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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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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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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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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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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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.
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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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