we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.

The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.

Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat stained smiles and nostrils.

Farther west, Michigan’s seemingly inexhaustible stock of white pine—170 billion board feet of it when the first colonists arrived—shrank by 95 percent in just a century.

Written By Bill Bryson

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