Keith Harris

“the daily life of city dwellers today is technically a form of mild but persistent torture, in which victims and victimisers are equally affected. And all call it ‘progress’.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“How curious, after all, is the way in which we moderns think about our world! And it is all so novel, too. The cosmology underlying our mental processes is but three centuries old a mere infant in the history of thought and yet we cling to it with the same embarrassed zeal with which a young father fondles his new-born baby. Like him, we are ignorant enough of its precise nature ; like him, we nevertheless take it piously to be ours and allow it a subtly pervasive and unhindered control over our
thinking.”
― E. A. Burtt

“Jake taught me that with just a few minutes of kindness you can earn a friend for life. That’s an important lesson.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring

“Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.”
― Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away