![]() “Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.” ![]() “What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one’s hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe’s creation and did not blink?” Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.” “The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.” Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. “The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. 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.” No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.” To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. “But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.” No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. “We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. “If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there’s history within those layers.” “There’s not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake” “There will never be a photograph of the Grand Canyon that can adequately describe its depth, breadth, and true beauty.” The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” “When your spirit cries for peace, come to a world of canyons deep in the old land” Kurt Vonnegut Famous Quotes about the Grand Canyon “When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here.” As a matter of course, I went into politics.” “I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. “You can’t say you’re going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.” “With what you don’t know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.” We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.” “The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. “Working with Jack is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.” Not all holes, or games, are created equal.” And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. We like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.” And be careful not to fall or step in mule poop.” “When visiting the Grand Canyon, make sure you hike into the canyon. “I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.” “It’s not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.” It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair.” “Myths that need clarification: “No matter how many times you see the Grand Canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears.” False. “I would rather stumble by chance on a tiny stream in the woods than plan a trip to the Grand Canyon.” “If you’re ever thinking ‘Oh, but I’m a waste of space, I’m a burden’ remember, that also describes the Grand Canyon.” Acceptable at funerals and the Grand Canyon” Thank you for supporting the free content on this site! For more information on affiliate links and cookies, see my disclosure page for more details. Note: This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission if you purchase something through one of these links.
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