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.

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A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.

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