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John McPhee quotes: In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

John McPhee quotes: Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

John McPhee quotes: I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

John McPhee quotes: He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

John McPhee quotes: Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

John McPhee quotes: With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

John McPhee quotes: I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

John McPhee quotes: He said, Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It's not, if you're mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

He said, Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It's not, if you're mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

John McPhee quotes: Mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

Mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

John McPhee quotes: Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

John McPhee quotes: There are dark, hard, cherty silt-stones from some deep ocean trench full of rapidly accumulating Pennsylvanian guck.

There are dark, hard, cherty silt-stones from some deep ocean trench full of rapidly accumulating Pennsylvanian guck.

John McPhee quotes: the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In

the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In

John McPhee quotes: In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

John McPhee quotes: The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

John McPhee quotes: going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside - to say, 'This is the way it was.'

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside - to say, 'This is the way it was.'

John McPhee quotes: Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

John McPhee quotes: He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

John McPhee quotes: I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it.

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it.