We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. George Bird Grinnell More Quotes by George Bird Grinnell More Quotes From 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 The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated George Bird Grinnell cheyenne edited
