Karolis

“Medieval crusaders believed that God and heaven provided their lives with meaning; modern liberals believe that individual free choices provide life with meaning. They are all equally delusional.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“There are 378,000 miles of roads in America’s national forests. That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“One-third of the landscape of the lower forty-eight states is covered in trees—728 million acres in all. Maine alone has 10 million uninhabited acres. That’s 15,600 square miles, an area considerably bigger than Belgium, without a single permanent resident. Altogether, just 2 percent of the United States is classified as built up.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail