Nature Quote by Peter Hessler

“The Chinese people had invented the compass, paper, the printing press, gunpowder, the seismograph, the crossbow, and the umbrella; they had sailed to Africa…

— Peter Hessler

“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and…

— Peter Hessler

“People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive,…

— Peter Hessler

“The decorating scheme of Big World is simple in theme but complicated in execution. The theme is: things that shine and things that make…

— Peter Hessler

“When Chen Meizi had chosen her specialty, she didn't expect to find a job that matched her abilities; she expected to find new abilities…

— Peter Hessler

“In China, the transition has been to abrupt that many traffic patterns come directly from pedestrian life - people drive the way they walk.…

— Peter Hessler

“Whenever somebody turned his head, he shouted, "Stop looking behind you!: There was a strict rule against head turns. When reversing, you were supposed…

— Peter Hessler

Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only…

— Peter Hessler

“In 1923, National Geographic Magazine claimed that the Great Wall is visible to the human eye from the moon. (In truth, nobody on the…

— Peter Hessler

“Sometimes they seemed to grasp instinctively at the worst of both worlds: the worst modern habits, the worst traditional beliefs.”

— Peter Hessler

“When you live in China as a foreigner, there are two critical moments of recognition. The first comes immediately upon arrival, when you are…

— Peter Hessler

“I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I…

— Peter Hessler