John McPhee, Assembling California Quotes
going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’
He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.
Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.
