28 Quotes About Grand-canyon

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

People have been driving off of the canyon for decades. I don't know of any that were accidental. One Ranger who worked here before I did told me that on several occasions, when cars drove off and folks died, they went down and collected the remains. But there were no helicopters strong enough and affordable enough to haul the cars out. He told me Rangers went down later and sprayed the cars with paint to help them blend in with the rocks.

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.

if there is a point to being in the canyon, it is not to rush but to linger, suspended in a blue-and-amber haze of in-between-ness, for as long as one possibly can. To float, to drift, savoring the pulse of the river on its odyssey through the canyon, and above all, to postpone the unwelcome and distinctly unpleasant moment when one is forced to reemerge and reenter the world beyond the rim-that is the paramount goal.

Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

It is a spectacular illusion – a deeply three-dimensional scene flattened onto an earthly canvas.

I would rather stumble by chance on a tiny stream in the woods than plan a trip to the Grand Canyon.

When visiting the Grand Canyon, make sure you hike into the canyon. And be careful not to fall or step in mule poop.