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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Adventure
Ignorance
Motion
Putting

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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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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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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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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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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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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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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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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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Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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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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No yesterdays on the road.
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.
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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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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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