Quotes by : John McPhee

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 disinterested....

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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