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Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. -- Bernard Williams
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When I'm in L.A., I try to run the canyons or play tennis with friends a few times a week. I've tried working out with a trainer and going to the gym, but I'd just much rather be outside. -- Julia Jones
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No. -- Douglas Brinkley
Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon. -- Andy Van Slyke
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. -- Don Marquis
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. -- John Wesley Powell
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. -- Edward Abbey
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. -- Joni Mitchell
I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. -- John McCain
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. -- George Will
I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations. -- Nolan Gould
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army. -- Richard Harding Davis
In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion. -- Dave Barry
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. -- Donald C. Peattie
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. -- John Wesley Powell
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. -- Jack Schmitt
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. -- Chuck Schumer
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
I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived. -- Holly Marie Combs
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go. -- Pat Paulsen
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. -- John Garamendi
Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that. -- Joey Santiago
I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes. -- Flea
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here. -- Will Hobbs
I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one. -- Gary Allan
When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots. -- Flea
Even music can't compete with the canyons and waterfalls. -- Marty Rubin
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me.... -- Allen Tate
Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas. -- Gary A. Kowalski
Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul? -- Julian Barnes

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