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Type: Explorer Quotes Category: American Explorer Quotes Date of Birth: March 24, 1834 Date of Death: September 23, 1902 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: John Wesley Powell Related Authors: Daniel Boone Davy Crockett Meriwether Lewis Jeff Rich Kit Carson Lincoln Ellsworth Thomas L. Smith Frederick Albert Cook |
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. John Wesley Powell |
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