Quotes by : John McPhee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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