William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon, also named William Lewis Trogdon, is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. He is the author of various bestselling books of topographical U.S. travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 August 1939
CountryUnited States of America
memories men achievement
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
men should knows
Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
miles wanted known
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.
cowboy america lasts
Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
law interstate happens
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
country exploration
Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
men inheritance chance
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.
native-american space light
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.
feel-better feel-good feelings
You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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.