Least Heat Moon Quotes

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America. — William Least Heat-Moon

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad. — William Least Heat-Moon

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

Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there, not what you got told was there. — William Least Heat-Moon

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. — William Least Heat-Moon

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. — William Least Heat-Moon

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. — William Least Heat-Moon

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion. — William Least Heat-Moon

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one. — William Least Heat-Moon

I simply couldn't make it without a copilot. — William Least Heat-Moon

Americans have just got afraid to taste anything. — William Least Heat-Moon

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. — William Least Heat-Moon

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. — William Least Heat-Moon

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. — William Least Heat-Moon

American history is parking lots. — William Least Heat-Moon

Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law. — William Least Heat-Moon

Get out and find ... the country. And ourselves. — William Least Heat-Moon

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth. — William Least Heat-Moon

No yesterdays on the road. — William Least Heat-Moon

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know. — William Least Heat-Moon

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection. — William Least Heat-Moon

Could be, but to a historian, it's been going since the beginning. — William Least Heat-Moon

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. — William Least Heat-Moon

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea. — William Least Heat-Moon

Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees? — William Least Heat-Moon

Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian. — William Least Heat-Moon