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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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There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already…
— Peter Garrett
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy…
— Anthony Kiedis
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The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing…
— Nahum Goldmann
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And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to…
— Marcel Proust
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Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
— Gene Wilder
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You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than…
— James Lind
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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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