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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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Law never made men a whit more just.
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Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily…
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I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water…
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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
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