What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
