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It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

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John Wesley Powell

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

Distance, River, Rivers, Running, Unknown
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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.

Art, Canyon, Illustration, Represented, Speech, Wonders

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.

Distance, Explore, Ride, Rocks, Running, Wall

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.

Canyon, Changeless, Curtain, Labyrinth, Toil, Views

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.

Canyons, Diverse, Elements, Make, Sublime, Unite

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

Cliffs, Everywhere, Landscape, River, Rivers, Rocks
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