River-Horse Quotes

“I think it an invaluable advantage to be born and brought up in the neighborhood of some grand and noble object in nature: a river, a lake, or a mountain. We make a friendship with it; we in a manner ally ourselves with it for life.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse: A Voyage Across America

“and at that moment I understood that I had to make the voyage at whatever cost. If a grail appears, the soul must follow.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse: A Voyage Across America