Carl

“you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.’ ‘What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?’ ‘You ask a glass of water.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The prolific hillwalker Rob Woodall became the first person to visit every trig point, on a mission that took him from Lizard Point in Cornwall to Unst in the Shetlands. He climbed Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest peak, and bagged the trig point by the Little Ouse in Norfolk, which lies 1,346 metres lower – one metre below sea level, in fact. It took two years of campaigning before he was granted permission to visit the privately owned trig point in Fort Borstal, Kent. At the end of his journey he said, ‘I’m not sure what I will do next but I’m not sure I could ever take up stamp collecting.”
― Alastair Humphreys, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“They hang the man and flog the woman Who steals the goose from off the common, Yet let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.”
― Alastair Humphreys, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness