“In the view of conservationists, there is something special about dams, something—as conservation problems go—that is disproportionately and metaphysically sinister. The outermost circle of the Devil’s world seems to be a moat filled mainly with DDT. Next to it is a moat of burning gasoline. Within that is a ring of pinheads each covered with a million people—and so on past phalanxed bulldozers and bicuspid chain saws into the absolute epicenter of Hell on earth, where stands a dam.” HellEnvironmentConservationDams Book:Encounters with the Archdruid Source: Encounters with the Archdruid
“Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.” MorningHellNonfiction Author:John McPhee
