Canyons Quotes - Page 4

• 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?

  Ruth Benedict

  Baby, Children, Book

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.126, Transaction Publishers

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• In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

  Johnny Miller

  Golf, North And South, Grand Canyon

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• I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.

  Ana Ortiz

  Running, Dog, Three

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• 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.

  Aron Ralston

  Beautiful, Parks, Avalanches

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• 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.

  Nik Wallenda

  Years, Three, World

  "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

  Fiona Apple

  Echoes, Lasts, Moments

  Song: Container

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• I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

  Richard Bode

  Wall, Men, Songbirds

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• In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Summer, Loneliness, Men

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• I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?

  Gerald R. Ford

  Beautiful, Determination, Inspiration

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• 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

  Art, Writing, Understanding

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black

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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.

  Fannie Hurst

  Want, Grand Canyon, Capture

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• We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Generations, Gaps, Grand Canyon

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• I had kept opaque
  Down deeper than the canyons undersea
  The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
  Nobody saw; not seen even by me.

  Allen Tate

  Lakes, Saws, Sullen

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.136, Macmillan

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• I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

  Freya Stark

  New York, Erosion, Sky

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Would Be, Looks, Crossings

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black

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

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Taken, Fog, Life Is

  "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, (ch. 7), 1993.

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• I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street

  Katy Rose

  Hate, Light, Blood

  Song: Overdrive, Album: Because I Can

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• Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

  Norman Maclean

  Summer, Memories, Thinking

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Adventure, Flames

  Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

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• I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

  Paul Saffo

  Doors, Wish, Wildlife

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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

  Anne Waldman

  Cutting, People, Upset

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Lakes, Utah

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Thinking, Differences

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• A major change is afoot as we combine both WPZ and Access into the large scale natural gas infrastructure MLP. And the team here at WPZ is very energized right now as we're on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.

  Alan Armstrong

  Team, Cash Flow, Three

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