Grand Canyon Nature Quotes

#1. The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.

John Wesley Powell

#2. I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity.

Ann Zwinger

#3. The Big Dipper wheels on its bowl. In years hence it will have stopped looking like a saucepan and will resemble a sugar scoop as the earth continues to wobble and the dipper's seven stars speed in different directions.

Ann Zwinger

#4. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Ann Zwinger

#5. This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped through in succession, leaving a richness of images imprinted on a sunburned retina.

Ann Zwinger

#6. The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.

John Wesley Powell

#7. You know why God's so hard to find, Trevor? No, Mr. Shaw, I say, why is God so hard to find? God's so hard to find because he ain't lost!

Ryan Winfield

#8. Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether.

Anthony Marais

#9. You can tell all you need to know about someone from the way cows are around him.

Gary D. Schmidt

#10. There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Allen Ginsberg

#11. All wars are grotesque blasphemies against God's greatest gift: Life. Until

Rita Mae Brown

#12. One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

Michael Palin

#13. While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Everybody is struggling to refine their views in opposition to the other people. And that's one of the most important things that philosophy actually has to teach us that you have to air your views and bring them to the table with people - with whom you disagree very much.

Rebecca Goldstein

#15. The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.

Ann Zwinger