George Bird Grinnell quotes

George Bird Grinnell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- George Bird Grinnell

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“We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.”
-- George Bird Grinnell

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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.”
-- George Bird Grinnell

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“The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated”
-- George Bird Grinnell

#Cheyenne Quotes

“Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.”
“What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!”
“Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!”
“When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.”
“In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso
“I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.”
“Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!”
“We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black
“You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.”
“At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.”

Source : Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.74, Macmillan

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