George Bird Grinnell quotes
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“There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.”
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“We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.”
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“Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.”
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“The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated”
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“When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.”
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Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso
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“I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.”
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Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black
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Source : Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.74, Macmillan
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