At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsÂ… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing? — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees? — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. — 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
