Canyons Quotes

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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear… — Richard Harding Davis
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. — Alan Valentine
I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks. — Paul Rudnick
Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them… — David Abram
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their… — Unknown Author
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool… — Michael Shermer
Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive… — William O. Douglas
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are… — John Wesley Powell
God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is… — Martin Prechtel
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to… — John Wesley Powell
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience. — Jad Abumrad
In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky… — Dave Barry
The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be… — Frederick Lenz
What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think… — Barbara Boxer
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it… — John Daniel
So what will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to find ways, not… — Carly Fiorina
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the… — Robert Breault
At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The… — Barry Goldwater
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place… — Barry Goldwater
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. — John Wesley Powell

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