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Top 17 William Least Heat-Moon Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“Be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“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.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

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

― 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 the road.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“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.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

― 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

“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.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“Beware thoughts that come in the night.”

― 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.”

― 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 presents to the traveler, ‘I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.’”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“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.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

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

― William Least Heat-Moon

“I simply couldn’t make it without a copilot.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“It’s difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

“I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you’re taking liberties with.”

― William Least Heat-Moon

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