We are so used to this that we forget how remarkable it is. Nature doesnāt have comfort zones. You donāt find animals living in conditions that just suit them.Bill Bryson
We casually talk about āsaving the planetā when what we mean is āsaving ourselves.āBill Bryson
In the Georgian age, it seems, even unpleasant tasks were approached with a hearty vigor that just slightly takes the breath away.Bill Bryson
Should you ever be so unwise as to get into an argument with an Athenian on anything more consequential than a point of grammar or usage of the word āperipatetic,ā you will regret it.Bill Bryson
If you had to summarize it in a sentence, you could say that a house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.Bill Bryson
To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it transforms us into leading actors in the very story we are trying to escape from, it puts us back at the centre of the map.Bill Bryson
A home is a place to write thank-you notes or console a grieving friend, to wrap a present for a loved one, watch a television show, wreathe a crayfish, check a reference.Bill Bryson
We are not living in a world of clear borders or neat distinctions. We are in a world in which we donāt even always know the nature of what we have just doneBill Bryson
At its heart, a home is no more than a refuge from the tough world outsideBill Bryson
Above all, houses are about the people who inhabit them and what they do there.Bill Bryson