The Control of Nature Quotes

“Despite the recurrence of events in which the debris-basin system fails in its struggle to contain the falling mountains, people who live on the front line are for the most part calm and complacent. It appears that no amount of front-page or prime-time attention will ever prevent such people from masking out the problem.”
― John McPhee, The Control of Nature

“Patton was one of a number of people from the mainland who contracted what became known as the Vestmann Island disease. Valdimar Jonsson”
― John McPhee, The Control of Nature