John McPhee Quotes

If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place fro...

Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. ...

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinter...

If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good a...

The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene cras...

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you s...

He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Ari...

Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857,...

Some miners’ wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush fr...

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tunin...

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

When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-ca...

I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to s...

A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses ...