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  • Bill Bryson Quote - An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
  • Bill Bryson Quote - An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
  • Bill Bryson Quote - An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
  • Bill Bryson Quote - An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
  • Bill Bryson Quote - An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
  • Bill Bryson Quote - An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…

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    It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame.

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    When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. “Oh, that’s not necessary,” he replied . “It’s so seldom I have one.

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    At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as “the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance.”.

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    Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

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    It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

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    Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls – you don’t find a sense of community in malls.

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    The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

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    So that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.

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    Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

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    It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn’t have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

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    I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It’s a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: ‘Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.

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    When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.

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    I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed.

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    This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir.

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    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.

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