Canyons Quote by David Foreman

“To some conservationists, the Colorado River is the preeminent symbol of everything mankind has done wrong—a harbinger of a squalid and deserved fate. To…

— Marc Reisner

“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.”

— Patrick McCully

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

— David R. Brower

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”

— Tim Palmer

“We save rivers and canyons and mountains, and they save us.”

— Mark Woods

As an avid hunter and outdoorsman, I am blessed to call the bank of the great Yellowstone River outside Glendive my home.

— Matt Rosendale

In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of rime and…

— John Wesley Powell

“They were relaxing at the top of a waterfall, in a small, still pool where the mountain waters hit an upward slope of folded…

— Ron Parsons

“It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is…

— Faith A. Colburn

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

— Arthur Golden

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by…

— Anonymous

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.

— Richard Bangs