Bill Bryson

"Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret."

- Bill Bryson

"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time."

- Bill Bryson

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

- Bill Bryson

"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."

- Bill Bryson

"I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before."

- Bill Bryson

"They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July."

- Bill Bryson