Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon

At any particular moment in a man’s life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he’s being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that’s a fulfilling notion. But if he’s in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

Men

Sleep

Stupid

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 of sources.

Night

Restriction

Source

Boredom lies only with the traveler’s limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

Boredom

Lying

Perception

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn’t want to eat in the first place.

Community

Spoons

Want

Get out and find …the country. And ourselves.

Country

Exploration

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it’s one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

Ocean

Rivers

Twenties

I did learn what I didn’t know I wanted to know.

Knows

Wanted

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

Goal

Kind

Setting Goals

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 white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

Believe

Eye

Stars

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Insight

Men

Wander

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American History

Believe

Bikers

Blue

Boredom

Boys

Carpe Diem

Chance

Change

Color

Community

Cooking

Country

Cowboy

Dirty

Dust

Eden

Encounters

Exploration

Eye

Facts

Fighting

Fool

Garden

Goal

Goodness

Hindrance

Ideas

Inheritance

Insight

Ivory

Kind

Knows

Land

Lasts

Light

Lying

Mean

Men

Migration

Native American

Negative

Night

Ocean

Past

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Restriction

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Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon

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 of sources.

Boredom lies only with the traveler’s limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn’t want to eat in the first place.

Get out and find …the country. And ourselves.

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it’s one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

I did learn what I didn’t know I wanted to know.

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

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 white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

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