“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.” MenMindLongEyeLyingForceCan DoLandOne DayRegionsUnseenMushroomsPavementAsphalt Author:William Least Heat-Moon
“I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.” BelieveTwoEyeStarsWhiteMillionsSawsSkyThousandSixHundredBillionsNakedGalaxyStarlightNaked Eyes Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America