George Bird Grinnell Quotes
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The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
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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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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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George Bird Grinnell
- Born: September 20, 1849
- Died: April 11, 1938
- Occupation: Anthropologist
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