Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
BILL BRYSON
In order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
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The first book I did – the first successful book – was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
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I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.
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There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being.
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There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
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If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.
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