Canyons Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canyons Dams Inspirational Ugly
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River]. — David Foreman Copy Share Image
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The new dam, of course, will improve things. If ever filled it will back water to within sight of the Bridge, transforming what was… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made. — George Sand Copy Share Image
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass… — June Millington Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand… — John Piper Copy Share Image
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went… — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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