Bill Bryson Quotes about Earth

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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.

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

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

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

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