John Wesley Powell quotes
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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 graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.”
-- John Wesley PowellSource : John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.
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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 lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.”
-- John Wesley PowellSource : John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.397, Cosimo, Inc.
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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 beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.”
-- John Wesley PowellSource : John Wesley Powell (2003). “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”, p.268, Penguin
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“The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.”
-- John Wesley PowellSource : John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.
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“The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.”
-- John Wesley PowellSource : Smithsonian Institution, John Wesley Powell, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode (1875). “Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution”, p.55
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.”
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“Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.”
Source : "Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism: Review" by Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg.com, October 14, 2009.
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Source : "Lanark: A Life in Four Books". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1981.
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