Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you. β¨ FaceBook post byBill Bryson from Mar 09, 2013
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- I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open. β¨ Bill Bryson (2000). The Complete Notes, Random House
- Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings. β¦ βΆ
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