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NATIONAL PARKS PORTFOLIO
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THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO RIVER IN ARIZONA
BY SUNSET AND MOONRISE
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HEN the light falls into it, harsh, direct, and
searching," writes Hamlin Garland, "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, and gray-green mesas, dimly seen, take on the gleam of
opalescent lakes of mountain water."
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THE RIM ROAD AFFORDS MANY GLORIOUS VIEWS Photograph by Henry Fuermann |
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HERMIT'S REST, NEAR THE HEAD OF THE HERMIT TRAIL TO THE RIVER Copyright by Fred Harvey |
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"IS ANY FIFTY MILES OF MOTHER EARTH AS FEARFUL, OR ANY PART AS FEARFUL,
AS FULL OF GLORY, AS FULL OF GOD?"—JOAQUIN MILLER Photograph by H. T. Cowling |
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