Quotes About John McPhee

Altogether, according to John McPhee, [geological ages] number in the "tens of dozens." Fortunately, unless you take up geology as a career, you are unlikely ever to hear any of them again.

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

They sold box turtles by the gross to people in Philadelphia, who used the turtles to keep cellars free of snails—a market that has declined.