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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Wander
Insight
Gets
Strength
Instead
Maybe
Men

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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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