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The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway, ... ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here. - John McPhee Quotes

The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway, ... ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.

The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway. ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here. - John McPhee Quotes

The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway. ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. - John McPhee Quotes

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

A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare. - John McPhee Quotes

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

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them. - John McPhee Quotes

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player - John McPhee Quotes

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. - John McPhee Quotes

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

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Ã¢â¬ÅA pedestrian today in Juneau, head down and charging, can be stopped for no gain by the wind.Ã¢â¬Â - John McPhee Quotes

Ã¢â¬ÅA pedestrian today in Juneau, head down and charging, can be stopped for no gain by the wind.Ã¢â¬Â

In 1735, New Orleans went under, - John McPhee Quotes

In 1735, New Orleans went under,

A pedestrian today in Juneau, head down and charging, can be stopped for no gain by the wind. - John McPhee Quotes

A pedestrian today in Juneau, head down and charging, can be stopped for no gain by the wind.

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