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
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.
rain wind religion
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.
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.
wanted knows
I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
goal kind setting-goals
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
real men trying
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.