 It is great but not beautiful. The lines are chaotic, disturbing—but wait! The clouds and the sunset, the moonrise and the storm will transform it into a splendor no mountain range can surpass. Peaks will shift and glow, walls darken, crags take fire,...  Bulletin of the Pan American Union - Page 403by Pan American Union - 1916Full view - About this book
 | Lilian Whiting - 1906 - 454 pages
...love and war, Ufe and death, heaven and hell." Hamlin Garland, in one of his prose-poems, has said : " The clouds and the sunset, the moonrise and the storm,...the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water. The traveller who goes out to the edge and peers into the great abyss sees but one phase out of hundreds.... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1916 - 1172 pages
...harsh, direct and searching, it is great, but not beautiful. The lines are chaotic, disturbing — but wait ! The clouds and the sunset, the moonrise and...the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water." " It seems a gigantic statement for even Nature to make all in one mighty stone word," writes John... | |
 | United States. National Park Service, Robert Sterling Yard - 1917 - 270 pages
...SUNSET AND MOONRISE HEN the light falls into it, harsh, direct, and searching," writes Hamlin Garland, "it is great, but not beautiful. The lines are chaotic,...the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water." Copyright by Fred Harvey Photograph by US Reclamation Service Photograph by VS Reclamation Service... | |
 | 1927 - 594 pages
...cloud today, a wall of marble tomorrow. When the light falls into it, harsh, direct, and searching, it is great, but not beautiful. The lines are chaotic,...the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water." "lt seems a gigantic statement for even nature to make all in one mighty stone word", writes John Muir.... | |
 | Robert Sterling Yard - 1931 - 284 pages
...mountain range can surpass. ;aks will shift and glow, walls darken, crags take fire, and gray-green esas, dimly seen, take on the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water." opyrigkt by Fred Haney HERMIT'S REST, NEAR THE HEAD OF THE HERMIT'S TRAIL TO THE RIVER f'/v. Ir Copyright... | |
 | 1924 - 744 pages
...the sunset, moonrise and the storm, transform it into a splendor no mountain range can surpass. Peaks shift and glow, walls darken, crags take fire, and...the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water." A spectator standing upon the rim of this "First Wonder of the World" surveys a thousand square miles... | |
 | Edgar Lee Hewett - 1968 - 468 pages
...cloud to-day, a wall of marble to-morrow. When the light falls into it, harsh, direct and searching, it is great, but not beautiful. The lines are chaotic,...the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water. The traveler who goes out to the edge and peers into the great abyss sees but one phase out of hundreds.... | |
 | 1916 - 380 pages
...a tiny silver thread which he knows is the ALONG THE LOWER STRETCH Oí" HERMIT TRAIL, GRAND CANYON. disturbing—but wait! The clouds and the sunset,...the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water." "It seems a gigantic statement for even Nature to make all in one mighty stone word," writes John Muir.... | |
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