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. — 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
The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
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… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
