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A Striking Feature About Our Atmosphere (Bryson)

The most striking thing about our atmosphere is that there isn’t very much of it. It extends upward for about 120 miles, which might seem reasonably bounteous when viewed from ground level, but if you shrank the Earth to the size of a standard desktop globe it would only be about the thickness of a couple of coats of varnish.

— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003, pg. 255)

Joshua Hynes

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 5:28pm. It has been filed under Media, Books, Quotes, News, Science, Writers, Joshua.

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