John McPhee Quotes
- If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human…
- If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt.…
- I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
- When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
- Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but…
- He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.