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William Least Heat-Moon has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and…
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No yesterdays on the road.
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Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to…
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
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I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I…
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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons.…
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended…
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A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their…
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There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good…
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Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
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