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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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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up…
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I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think…
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Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.
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In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars…
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Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were…
— Francis Parkman
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In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of…
— John Wesley Powell
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