Canyons Quotes

98 Canyons quotes by 83 unique authors

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
There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence… — Max Lucado
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the… — John Denver
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on… — Erma Bombeck
A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart. — George Gaylord Simpson
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the… — Alan Lightman
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or… — Dean Koontz
I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the… — Cliff Martinez
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow… — Terry Tempest Williams
I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon. — Bill Walton
The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down. — Kent Hovind

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