Grand Canyon Quotes

54 Grand Canyon quotes by 45 unique authors

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything… — A.C. Grayling
Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon. — Andy Van Slyke
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the… — Harrison Schmitt
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our… — Peter Kreeft
I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking,… — Nolan Gould
Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon. — Diane Keaton
I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd… — Holly Marie Combs
I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to… — Ani DiFranco
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No. — Douglas Brinkley
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he… — Red Smith
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks. — Paul Rudnick
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
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
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
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
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

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