# Quote — Ross Macdonald, The Drowning Pool

> They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.

- Author: [Ross Macdonald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald.md)
- Book: [The Drowning Pool](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-drowning-pool.md)
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