Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.Bill Bryson
I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead.Bill Bryson
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot.Bill Bryson
I can't think of a single reason why I should voluntarily subject myself to the manifold discomforts, inconveniences and mortifications that you must endure as a hiker.Bill Bryson
There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods.Bill Bryson
It's a funny thing about the human mind that, often, the harder you attempt to divest yourself of a particular notion, the more insistently it takes root.Bill Bryson
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.Bill Bryson
The trail, when it existed at all, more often resembled a disorderly pile of sticks and leaves rather than something intended for human passage.Bill Bryson
God, it's disturbing to realize how many people fail to grasp the connection between having fun and having a good time.Bill Bryson
Once in awhile, you stumble onto something so lovely and unexpectedly heartening that it just takes your breath away.Bill Bryson
Here we were, with all this splendid wilderness around us, and all I could think of was civilized food - hamburgers, Kentucky Fried Chicken, hot dogs, pizza, Chinese food.Bill Bryson