“If you endeavour, fate endeavours”
“Parecia que nada se fazia na Mongólia sem um brinde de vodka. De todas as tradições russas que os sovietes tinham exportado para os seus satélites, era vergonhoso que a que prevalecia fosse a vodka a qual, antigamente, nem sequer fazia parte da sua cultura.”
Source: Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
“It was an extraordinary landscape-pale yellow, under a blue sky-extraordinary because it was not a desert, but rather the largest pasture imaginable; here and there a herd of horses, here and there a camel, or a man, or a tent. It was inhabited, but with a sparseness that was impressive.”
Source: Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
“I found it depressing that no one in Mongolia should know anything of Chernobyl, especially when they themselves had the same sort of nuclear power plants. It was bad enough that they have been colonized and occupied by the Soviets, but it was much worse that this paternalism was taken so literally that they were treated like children and not told anything.”
Source: Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
“One of the beauties of cycling is that pedalling alone on a long, empty road allows a lot of time for protracted and uninterrupted trains of thoughts.”
Source: Off the Rails
“I sympathised with the bushes and envied the driftwood.”
Source: Off the Rails
“She always thought she needed someone to love when all she really needed to do was love the world and let love find her in its time and in its way.”
“This philosophy rejects busyness, seeing overload as an obstacle to producing results that matter, not a badge of pride.”
Source: Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“Amid all the Internet point-scoring, though, one thing is certain: spiders have no interest in your open mouth, which is moist and quivering and unwelcoming, and will not willingly go near it. There is just an inch of truth to it: you will have inhaled millions of microscopic pieces of spider in dust - but then, by that reckoning, you have inhaled substantial portions of people, too.”
Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
“Like most of my stories, it will end tragically.”
Source: If He Had Been With Me