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Robert Louis Stevenson2 quotes
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1894Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1894Mike Waters1 quote
I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. — Mike Waters · 1991William Least Heat-Moon1 quote
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dark-times neither day nor night-the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they cast a mysterious shadow of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. — William Least Heat-Moon · 1982