Landform Quotes

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

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