35 Bill Bryson Quotes

Bill Bryson's full name is William 'Bill' McGuire Bryson. He was born on December 8, 1951. Bryson is a best-selling American author of humorous books with a travel theme. Since the late '80s, Bill Bryson has been writing travel books. His works are usually humorous and full of chin-scratchingly insightful observations. Outdoor enthusiasts may be familiar with his book 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', which gained even more popularity after a Robert Redford-starred film adaptation of it was released in 2015. His books cover a wide range of topics, including science, history, and travel, and are aimed at both general audiences and specialists. Children could learn about various subjects by reading his quotes. They might also learn about the importance of curiosity, the value of clear and concise communication, and the pleasure of learning new things. These quotes teach children to appreciate the world around them even more.

• Bill Bryson's work often highlights the beauty and diversity of the world and encourages readers to appreciate and respect the natural environment.
• He is known for making complex subjects accessible and engaging for a general audience.
• Some of his most well-known books include 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 'The Road To Little Dribbling', and 'Notes From A Small Island'.

• How Bryson's writing style makes complex subjects more accessible and engaging.
• Some exciting things that your child has learned from reading or listening to Bryson's quotes.
• How his quotes encourage readers to appreciate and respect the natural environment.

"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about." - 'Neither Here Nor There: Travels In Europe', 1991

"Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life." - 'Neither Here Nor There: Travels In Europe', 1991

"I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything." - 'Neither Here Nor There: Travels In Europe', 1991

"I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city." - 'Neither Here Nor There: Travels In Europe', 1991

"I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way."

"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position" - 'Notes From A Small Island', 1995

"Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses." - 'Neither Here Nor There: Travels In Europe', 1991

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"If there's one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could all do with more of in our lives." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"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." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"Sometimes the world just isn't ready for a good idea." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"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." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored." - 'The Lost Continent', 1989

"Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It's quite wonderful, really." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"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." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"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." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour."

"That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"We had grounds to be proud. We were real hikers now." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"All bears are agile, cunning, and immensely strong, and they are always hungry." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

"We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls."

"There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo."

"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003

“The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.” - ‘Notes From A Small Island’, 1995

"A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder." - 'A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail', 1998

"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you." - 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything', 2003