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  • The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

  • There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

    Firefly   Echoes   Light  
    Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.46, Vintage
  • I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

  • I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

    Matter   Pounds   Canyons  
    "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time, June 8, 1962.
  • In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

  • Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

    Life   Taken   Science  
    Journal entry for 1923. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 7, 1993.
  • 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.

    Views   Labyrinth   Toil  
    John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.397, Cosimo, Inc.
  • To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

    Space   Forever   Devil  
  • All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

    Dams   Ugly   Canyons  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks
  • I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

    Believe   Sunset   Hands  
    "John McCain on Education". 2007 GOP primary debate, at Reagan library, hosted by MSNBC, www.issues2000.org. May 3, 2007.
  • I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.

    Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.
  • I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.

    Wall   Men   Silence  
  • I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

  • Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

    Taken   Fog   Life Is  
    "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, (ch. 7), 1993.
  • And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

    Beautiful   Hate   Loss  
  • The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

  • I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

    Cutting   People   Upset  
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  • If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

  • The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

    Country   Distance   Land  
  • The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

    Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage
  • Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.

    Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black
  • Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

    Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black
  • In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

    Clothes   Rocks   Car  
    "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.
  • I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

    Suicide   Business   Real  
  • I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

    Years   Three   World  
    "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
  • A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

    Wall   Rip   Fall  
    Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
  • In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

    Baby   Children   Book  
    Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.126, Transaction Publishers
  • Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

  • All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

    Sleep   Army   Night  
    Richard Harding Davis (2014). “With the Allies”, p.17, Read Books Ltd
  • I work out at Runyon Canyon almost every morning.

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