70 Quotes by John McPhee

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.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player

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

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

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

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

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

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