The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society Quotes

“After all, it’s not much fun being a chicken.’ ‘But if you had to be a chicken,’ observed Eduardo, ‘then I think that perhaps this wouldn’t be a bad place to be one.”
― Chris Stewart, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society

“Somebody once said to me that a man’s workshop is a good indication of the state of his mind. This was a rather unkind cut, for mine is perhaps better described as a wildlife reserve rather than a seat of industry and creativity.”
― Chris Stewart, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society

“like this for perhaps twenty-five years, and I hadn’t exactly been an ace back then. I found myself looking down a vast, broken plain of snow, steeply inclined. It seemed to go on down for ever until the slope itself was lost to view in a boiling sea of cloud impossibly far below. Now, I’m not a nervous person at all, but my legs and knees, which were already quivering from the muscular exertion of the climb, began at that point to quake, literally, with fear. Nearly everybody had already set off, and were little more than dots far below by the time I had steeled my courage sufficiently to launch myself down the slope. I reckoned no harm could come to me if I just kept it slow, but within seconds I”
― Chris Stewart, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society

“nothing like it. The temperature on the north side of the Sierra Nevada stayed”
― Chris Stewart, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society