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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.
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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.
William Lewis Trogdon
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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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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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
William Lewis Trogdon
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
William Lewis Trogdon -
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
William Lewis Trogdon
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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.
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On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
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The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.
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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.
William Lewis Trogdon -
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
William Lewis Trogdon -
New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsĀ But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
William Lewis Trogdon
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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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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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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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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.
William Lewis Trogdon