George Bird Grinnell Professions : Anthropologist Born : September 20, 1849 Died : April 11, 1938 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by George Bird Grinnell There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other. George Bird Grinnell solitude twenties dawn Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery. George Bird Grinnell ocean sea lying We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. George Bird Grinnell drinking water people The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated George Bird Grinnell cheyenne edited Similar Authors Bronislaw Malinowski anthropologist Angeles Arrien anthropologist Ann Dunham anthropologist Ashley Montagu anthropologist Arthur Demarest anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace anthropologist All Authors
