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Category Archives: quote
Stone Workers
Photo credit: Eliot Porter
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and
water working at their leisure
with a liberal allowance of time.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Glide
Photo credit: Dungeon Canyon by Eliot Porter
“Past these towering monuments, past these mounded billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, past these mural curves, we glide hour after hour, stopping now and then, as out attention is arrested by some new wonder.”
— John Wesley Powell, 1869
Mounds & Monuments
Photo credit: Rainbow Bridge, by Eliot Porter
“On the walls, and back many miles into the country, numbers of monument-shaped buttes are observed. So we have a curious ensemble of wonderful features — carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments. From which of these features shall we select a name? We decided to call it Glen Canyon.
—John Wesley Powell, 1869
Oh, to be Lost
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
— John Steinbeck, “Travels With Charley”
C/O General Delivery
“…Tomorrow I’m leaving for Alaska. I’m going to find an ice-cold creek near the Arctic where that strange beautiful moss grows and spend a week with the grayling. My address will be, Trout Fishing in America, c/o General Delivery, Fairbanks, Alaska.”
— Richard Brautigan … “Trout Fishing in America”
Photo credit: ADN
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— Douglas Adams
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