All William Least Heat-Moon Quotes
- To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer… Closer
- No yesterdays on the road. Bikers
- 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. Bad
- Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. Achievement
- Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees? Amuse
- 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.… Inspirational
- Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian. America
- Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law. Along
- At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn. Beginning
- Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves. Country
- Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things.… All
- To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. American
- On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. America
- 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… Disclose
- I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know. Funny
- Beware thoughts that come in the night. Beware
- I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. Digressive
- The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America. America
- The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat… All
- 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… Believe