Life Quote by Bill Bryson

“What never fails to astonish at Skara Brae is the sophistication. These were the dwellings of Neolithic people, but the houses had locking doors,…

— Bill Bryson

“I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

— James Joyce

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Biarritz was a community of whalers. During the Middle Ages, it had grown from a small fishing…

— Carol Drinkwater

“evolution of the lactase persistence allele, and it locates it in an area engulfing Slovakia, with Poland to the north and Hungary to the…

— Adam Rutherford

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living…

— Michael Lewis

“Gaia giveth even as she taketh away. The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers, shifted rainfall…

— Paul Di Filippo

“When they weren’t running meat—or rum—they worked as salt miners or piloted small boats along the coast. These highland Saint-Dominguans, along with more recent…

— Tom Reiss

“These rocky, verdant, and volcanic landscapes of the Greek Isles exert their own charm, but it is the sea that dominates every aspect of…

— Laura Brooks

“From black-rimmed plates they ate turtle soup and eaten Russian rye bread, ripe Turkish olives, caviar, salted mullet-roe, smoked Frankfurt black puddings, game in…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Communities such as Auchmithie, Sandend, and even Wick once thrived on herring fishing. But it led me to ruminate on the likely fate for…

— Rick Stein

“The pirogues came with live turtles, and with fish, with cloudy beer and wine made from bananas, palm nuts, or sorghum, and with the…

— Nadine Gordimer