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Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep.
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Traveling is more funhell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson
For us, the universe goes only as far as light has travelled in the billions of years since the universe was formed.
— Bill Bryson
It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.
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The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct.
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The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
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Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.
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Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In
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The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn't tell us how far away they are to begin with.
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The patients on Tuke Ward were a pleasant and tractable bunch and practised insanity with a certain elan.
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Nearly 90 per cent of the planet's ice is in Antarctica and most of the rest is in Greenland.
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Of all the disciplines in science, paleoanthropology boasts perhaps the largest share of egos,
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Just reaching the centre of our own galaxy would take far longer than we have existed as beings.
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Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist.
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Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
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It is the patchiness of the record that makes each new find look so sudden and distinct from all the others.
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We should have a definitive total for insects in a little over fifteen thousand years.
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A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding.
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We are not only what we do, we are also what we imagine.
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Comets develop their distinctive tails when their surface material begins to evaporate as they approach the Sun.
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In Russia there are no native words for efficiency, challenge, engagement ring, have fun, or take care
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Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one).
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What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.
— Bill Bryson
Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. Everyone
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MACHOs (for MAssive Compact Halo Objects - really just another name for black holes, brown dwarfs and other very dim stars).
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For the moment we might very well call them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). Recent
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When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences,
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From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
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Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly.
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The World Wildlife Fund estimated in 1994 that the number of sharks killed each year was between 40 million and 70 million. As
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Sometimes the world just isn't ready for a good idea.
— Bill Bryson
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. Our
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Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.
— Bill Bryson
I had a hangover you could sell to science,
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I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.
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Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe.
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There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten.
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Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
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For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).
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Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.
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his facetious grace in writing," and much else.
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The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour.
— Bill Bryson
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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We were idiots really, but awfully happy, too.
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The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.
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Every day in every way I am getting better and better.*
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Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience.
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I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.
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