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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
Instead
Maybe
Men
Wander
Insight
Gets
Strength

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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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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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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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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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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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No yesterdays on the road.
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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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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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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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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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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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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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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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