Best William Least Heat-Moon Quotes
- The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later… Clark
- There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. Adventure
- The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build… Big
- New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsÂ… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing? Disclose
- Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. Adventure
- 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… Becomes
- 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… All
- 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… Chuck
- You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad. Bad
- Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote… Askew
- The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. Biggest
- With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search… Alien
- Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection. Awareness
- The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. Beckoning
- 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 the… Hold