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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

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World … it goes on for decades … It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
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Adults Kids Moving
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
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Geologist Loss Paperweight
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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Fashion Matter Writing
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Automobile Benefits Malls
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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Fate Jobs Lonely
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Incidentally Such Things
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well,
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Book Car Dashboard Family Long Moving
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it.
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Country Loved Sorry Suddenly Summer
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
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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Community Downtown Iowa
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
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Education Excitement Lack Stimulus
In the countryside, litter doesn’t have a friend. It doesn’t have anybody who’s saying, ‘Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.’
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Control Minutes Starting Waiting
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
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Cassava Corn Nine Oats
When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.
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Angstrom Height Intimacy Levitating Sitting
As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn’t go quite so far around it as others.
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Kind Life World

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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