"The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the……" — Donald C. Peattie
"The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth."
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8 Quotes by Donald C. Peattie
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There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag.…
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