{"quotes":[{"text":"God will break California from the surface of the continent like someone breaking off a piece of chocolate. It will become its own floating paradise of underweight movie stars and dot-commers, like a fat-free Atlantis with superfast Wi-Fi.","author":"Laura Ruby","tags":["california","funny"],"id":15050,"author_id":"Laura+Ruby"},{"text":"Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["california","capitalism","corruption","greed","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","socialism"],"id":18707,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"The light was different here in California.","author":"Heidi Freestone","tags":["california","light"],"id":22084,"author_id":"Heidi+Freestone"},{"text":"Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["big-sur","california","ecology","environment","good-neighbors","nature","peace","serenity"],"id":26576,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"Only in California could the night air be lit not by fireflies, but radioactive porn star cumshots.","author":"C.Z. Hazard","tags":["california","comedy","porn-star","porno-industry","pornography","radioactive","satire","transgressive-fiction"],"id":26689,"author_id":"C.Z.+Hazard"},{"text":"Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about 2.0 inches per year relative to the interior of North America.In scenario 1, the San Andreas fault is the sole locus of motion. Baja California and coastal California shear away from the rest of the continent to form a long, skinny island. A short ferry ride across the San Andreas Strait connects LA to San Francisco.In scenario 2, all of California west of the Sierra Nevada, together with Baja California, shears away to the northwest. The Gulf of California becomes the Reno Sea, which divides California from Nevada. The scene is reminiscent of how the Arabian Peninsula split from Africa to open the Red Sea some 5 million years ago.In scenario 3, central Nevada splits open through the middle of the Basin and Range province. The widening Gulf of Nevada divides the continent form a large island composed of Washington, Oregon, California, Baja California, and western Nevada. The scene is akin to Madagascar’s origin when it split form eastern Africa to open the Mozambique Channel.","author":"Keith Meldahl","tags":["california","deep-time","earth","geology","nature","plate-tectonics","wonder"],"id":45844,"author_id":"Keith+Meldahl"},{"text":"The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.","author":"Francis Parkman","tags":["great","california","point "],"id":46767,"author_id":"Francis+Parkman"},{"text":"The California supreme court, following the English common-law, decided that the owner of land bordering a watercourse was entitled only to the usufruct of the water; that if he used it he must return it to its original course unimpaired in quality and undiminished in volume.","author":"Jerome Hart","tags":["california","water"],"id":59506,"author_id":"Jerome+Hart"},{"text":"It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.","author":"Rae Carson","tags":["california","gold","rae-carson","seer","walk-on-earth-a-stranger","west","western","western-romance","world"],"id":76584,"author_id":"Rae+Carson"},{"text":"My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.","author":"Deb Caletti","tags":["rich","memorable","california "],"id":80381,"author_id":"Deb+Caletti"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":81,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}