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- american dream ᐧ busyness woods workplace. concepts 02 Share. “Talking equipment is one of those things you just have to do, like chatting to your mother’s friends in the supermarket. ”
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- Bill Bryson
- 1997
- “Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want.
- “Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception.
- “That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.” ― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
- “What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.” ― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.”. ― Bill Bryson, quote from A Walk in the Woods. Copy text.
- “Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
- “But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
- “As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?” ― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America.
- “There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
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From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills whose very names—Blue Ridge, Smokies, Cumberlands, Green Mountains, White Mountains—seem an invitation to amble.”. In Chapter 1, Bill Bryson explains stumbling upon the idea to hike the Appalachian Trail.
A Walk in the Woods. book. simplicity. ᐧ. life. ᐧ. time. ᐧ. wonderful to be. concepts. 02. “I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.” Bill Bryson. author. Bill Bryson. person. A Walk in the Woods.
