“I am drawn to the notion of wildness—how it shapes our fears and dreams, and how those fears and dreams can, in turn, reshape the wild.”
― Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
― Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
“Overweight people have chosen food over appearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.”
― Food: A Love Story
― Food: A Love Story
“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself—of having to take something from someone else.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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