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  1. John McPhee _ Basin and Range

    A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.
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  2. John McPhee _ Basin and Range

    I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
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  3. John McPhee _ Basin and Range

    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."
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