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Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.
William Least Heat-Moon
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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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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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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 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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.
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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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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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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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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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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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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
William Least Heat-Moon