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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.

Bill Bryson

… it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
BILL BRYSON

Months Six Years
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
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Benefits Hiking Journey
I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.
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Baseball Cap Looks People Wear
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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Judging Skins Travel
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.
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Hygiene Needs Thumbs
You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
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Science Thinking Understanding
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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Beautiful Generations Hate
When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn’t wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.
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Moving Otherwise Perspective Wait Waiting
Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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Boston Childhood Insane
I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion … everything slides off … It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?
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Actually Ask Motion Must Nailed Say Soon
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
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Baseball Book Country Problem
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.
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Exception Quirky Scientist Trying Way
What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.
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Looks Names Travel
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern.
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Decay Ideas People Usage Writing
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don’t want to live with them.
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May Parents People
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.
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Excitable People Self Wondered

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