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?
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.
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.
travel men beckoning
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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.
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.
men wander insight
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
stupid sleep men
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.
lying eye men
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.
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.