Inspirational Quote by William Least Heat-Moon

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

— William Least Heat-Moon

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

— William Least Heat-Moon

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

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

— William Least Heat-Moon

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

— William Least Heat-Moon

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

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

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

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

“road so crooked it could run for the legislature,”

— William Least Heat-Moon

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

— William Least Heat-Moon

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

— William Least Heat-Moon