"The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering……" — William Least Heat-Moon
"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 expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did."
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William Least Heat-Moon
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40 Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon
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To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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