Canyon Quotes

• Most people I've told about this think it's great. They really want to latch on to a good cause, ... But some of them say, 'Why do you have to hike the Grand Canyon ?'

  

  John Young
  • People
  • Good
  • Grand

• Nancy grabbed Plum's hand and together they ran around the last curve and then they were leaning against the old stone wall that marked Lookout Hill. Far, far down below them, a river was trying to wriggle its way out of a steep canyon. Over to the right, thick green hills crowded close to each other to share one filmy white cloud. To the left, as far as they could see the land flowed into valleys that shaded from a pale watery green, through lime, emerald, jade, leaf, forest to a dark, dark, bluish-green, almost black. The rivers were like inky lines, the ponds like ink blots.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • River
  • Forest
  • Leaf

• Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

  

  William Kittredge
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Personality