John McPhee Quote

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.


Basin and Range (1981)


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....

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....

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....

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....