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 More Quotes by John McPhee More Quotes From John McPhee He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. John McPhee inventing action letters I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. John McPhee airplane floating class