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… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
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
