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John Wesley Powell has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
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Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
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Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
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The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
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The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
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I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead…
— Helen Keller
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When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating…
— Unknown Author
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The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a…
— William Wordsworth
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Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.
— Arthur Koestler
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Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch.…
— Richard Huelsenbeck
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Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing…
— Helene Hanff
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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;…
— C.S. Lewis
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A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
— William Carlos Williams
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The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
— John Wesley Powell
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