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New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Seeing
Turns
Around
Way
Disclose
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Things
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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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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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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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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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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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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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I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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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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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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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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The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.
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