Bill Bryson Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

  Bill Bryson

  Oats, Wheat, Potatoes

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Jul 05, 2016

• Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

  Bill Bryson

  Records, Earth, Left Behind

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.295, Lulu Press, Inc

• I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

  Bill Bryson

  Stupid, Long, People

  "A Walk in the Woods". Book by Bill Bryson. Chapter 4 (p. 51), 1997.

• The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

  Bill Bryson

  Snakes, Utterance, Earth

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

• At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

  Bill Bryson

  Practice, America, Feelings

• Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

  Bill Bryson

  Ambitious, Earth, Visible

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.308, Lulu Press, Inc

• Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

  Bill Bryson

  Richard Feynman, Earth, May

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.194, Lulu Press, Inc

• Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

  Bill Bryson

  Looks, Snapshots, Earth

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.168, Lulu Press, Inc

• Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

  Bill Bryson

  Dog, Earth, Want

  Bill Bryson (2000). “Down Under”, Doubleday Books

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