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

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

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

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....

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.....

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....