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There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

Bill Bryson

You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.
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Across Country Even Going Without
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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Giving Television Worry
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
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Population Two World
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.
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Names Numbers Stars
There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.
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Differences Horse Zebras
It’s hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we’ve killed off an awful lot of animals – and I don’t think we’re doing a very good job of looking after the planet.
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Animal History Human Jobs Pessimistic Thinking
Traveling is more fun – hell, life is more fun – if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
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Fun Hell Life
It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
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Curious Good Planets Promoting Very
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.
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Kind Mean Rooms
I’m not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I’m fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I’m actually quite shy and reserved.
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Keyboards Shy Stories
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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Disappoint Knows Misanthropic
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence.
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Believe Cities Clever
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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Age Along Lightning Rolling
The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
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Enormous Realize Scale Secret Way
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods.
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Beneath Gained Home Sleep Stars
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.
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Anonymous Cities Feelings Travel

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