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John McPhee Quotes

«Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.»
Author: John McPhee | Keywords: alphabet, records
«Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player»
Author: John McPhee | Keywords: tennis, tennis player
«He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.»
Author: John McPhee
«The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.»
Author: John McPhee | Keywords: listens, Sounds of, warpath
«A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare.»
«?A pedestrian today in Juneau, head down and charging, can be stopped for no gain by the wind.?»
«In 1735, New Orleans went under,»
Author: John McPhee
«The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway, ... ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.»
Author: John McPhee
«The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway. ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.»
Author: John McPhee