Quotes of John McPhee - somelinesforyou

“ The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the IndoAustralian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard that it not only folded and buckled the plate boundaries but also plowed into the newly created Tibetan plateau and drove the Himalayas five and a half miles into the sky. The mountains are in some trouble. India has not stopped pushing them, and they are still going up. Their height and volume are already so great they are beginning to melt in their own selfgenerated radioactive heat. 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 a warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as 20,000 feet below the sea floor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat, I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence; this is the one I would choose: the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone. ”

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

“ Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player. ”

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

“ A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare. ”

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

“ Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player. ”

- John McPhee

“ A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare. ”

- John McPhee

“ A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare. ”

- John McPhee

“ A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare. ”

- John McPhee

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

- John McPhee

“ A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare. ”

- John McPhee

“ Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player. ”

- John McPhee

“ Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player. ”

- John McPhee

“ A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare. ”

- John McPhee
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