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John Wesley Powell
American
Explorer
Born:
Mar 24
,
1834
Died:
Sep 23
,
1902
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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.
John Wesley Powell
Ride
Walls
Unknown
Channel
Distance
Run
River
Over
Know
Well
Falls
Rocks
May
Explore
Conjecture
Many
Things
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
Art
Language
Illustration
Resources
Adequately
Must
Features
Attempting
Fail
Combined
Beyond
Powers
Nor
Itself
Wonders
Cannot
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Taxed
Graphic
Portray
Symbols
Speech
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
You
Month
See
Through
Lifted
Were
Curtain
Cannot
Grand
Which
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Might
View
Toil
Spectacle
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
John Wesley Powell
Prayer
Dance
Changed
Drought
Come
Climate
Years
Famine
Flood
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
John Wesley Powell
Organization
Language
Consists
Parts
Integration
Linguistic
Sentence
Sentences
Then
Organs
Differentiation
Speech
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