Karolis

“Today the National Park Service employs a more casual approach to endangering wildlife: neglect. It spends almost nothing—less than 3 percent of its budget—on research of any type, which is why no one knows how many mussels are extinct or even why they are going extinct.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“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

“Turgenev's brain was found to be one of the largest on record for neurologically typical individuals, weighing 2012 grams.”
― Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons-Original Edition

“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