If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.
Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life - John Mcphee
Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life
- John Mcphee
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. - John Mcphee
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the wa… - John Mcphee
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the wa…
A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the onl… - John Mcphee
A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the onl…
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research. - John Mcphee
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. An… - John Mcphee
If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. An…
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 … - John Mcphee
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 …
In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning. - John Mcphee
In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.
On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the un… - John Mcphee
On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the un…
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