"Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion."
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"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."
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"One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea."
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"The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself."
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"For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited."
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"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."
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"To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land."
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"I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal."
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"At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn."
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"You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad."
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"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."
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"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."
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"No yesterdays on the road."
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