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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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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open…
— Teresa of Avila
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I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of…
— Unknown Author
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We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of…
— T.H. White
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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…
— John Wesley Powell
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Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob…
— Romain Gary
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Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the…
— Kenny Smith
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway…
— Randy Wayne White
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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries,…
— William Wordsworth
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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for…
— Umberto Eco
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What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the…
— Ian Mcewan
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The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.
— Mikhail Naimy
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