I simply couldn't make it without a copilot. William Least Heat-Moon More Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon More Quotes From William Least Heat-Moon Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. William Least Heat-Moon easyadventuretravel What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it. William Least Heat-Moon eyemenlying The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. William Least Heat-Moon hindrancefoolself 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 carpe-diempasttravel Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves. William Least Heat-Moon explorationcountry Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. William Least Heat-Moon wanderinsightmen ...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way? William Least Heat-Moon voyagesjourneydream 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 colorchangeblue Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. William Least Heat-Moon errorsjoydiscovery 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 gardenedennegative A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end. William Least Heat-Moon journeymatterlong 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 adventuretwotravel New ways of seeing can disclose new things But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing? William Least Heat-Moon turnsvisionway One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea. William Least Heat-Moon perceptionseasweet I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know. William Least Heat-Moon milesknowswanted Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion. William Least Heat-Moon ignoranceadventure A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity. William Least Heat-Moon realtryingmen You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad. William Least Heat-Moon feel-goodfeel-betterfeelings At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn. William Least Heat-Moon Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection. William Least Heat-Moon historicalkindhistory
