Heat Moon
Heat Moon
against becomes hold judge past people
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. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
becomes judge
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do, especially in other people's minds.
design migration moments places saw
Then I saw a design. There on the map...For me, the migration had been to places and moments of glimpsed clarity.
keeps learn religion reminding respect sand wind
Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.
I simply couldn't make it without a copilot.
against funny hold past people
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.
ideas migration facts
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.
community want firsts
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.
ocean rivers twenties
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.
writing people liberty
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.
rivers personality grandfather
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.
book character writing
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.
garden eden cost
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.
adventure two kind
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.