Heat Moon
Heat Moon
night source restriction
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.
mean men land
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.
history historical kind
Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
travel men beckoning
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
ivory cooking cajuns
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.
yesterday bikers
No yesterdays on the road.
land goodness american-history
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
self fool hindrance
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
taken two fire
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.
journey long matter
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
stars believe eye
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.
fighting men water
The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.
america
The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
night restriction
Beware thoughts that come in the night.