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In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications.

Bill Bryson

I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.
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Going Themselves Wanted Wood Work Wreathed
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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Baseball Kids Successful
America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn’t have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.
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Beauty Behind Country Fences Grasped Making Nature
Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
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Earth Left Behind Records
Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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Desperate Higher Known Maintaining Reduced Tried
I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
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Bored Boring Moments
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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Astoundingly Briefly Combination Result
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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Arresting Building Country Nearly Structures Time
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)
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Church Doors Yards
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
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about.
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Conversation Country Eye Insisting Uncles
I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn’t know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.
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Country Discovered Found Million Patience People
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.
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Memorable Pessimism Travel
Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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Life Want Wonderful
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
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Incidentally Such Things

In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications.

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