Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful river. We have but a months rations remaining. The flour has been resisted through the mosquito-net sieve; the spoiled bacon has been dried...the sugar has all melted and gone on its way down the river.… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock -… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
I am not sure that we can climb out of the canyon here, and, when at the top of the wall, I know enough… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
