Everest Quote by John McPhee

“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.”

— John McPhee

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

— John McPhee

“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.”

— John McPhee

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

— John McPhee

“A lead is good not because it dances, fires cannons, or whistles like a train but because it is absolute to what follows.”

— John McPhee

“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to…

— John McPhee

“Since most callers have until moments before been completely unaware that there are bears in New Jersey, there is often in their voices a…

— John McPhee

“Incandescent carbon particles, by the tens of millions, leap free of the log and wave like banners, as flame. Several hundred significantly different chemical…

— John McPhee

“If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.”

— John McPhee

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel…

— John McPhee

“The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. ”

— John McPhee

On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m…

— John McPhee