Canyon Quotes

I missed life in the 1960s, so it has always been a dream of mine to live in a trailer and experience life on the road. A few years ago, I bought a 27-foot, 1978 Airstream from the Recycler in Atlanta. My boyfriend at the time and I shipped our belongings to Los Angeles, jammed everything else we could fit into overhead compartments on the Airstream, and drove. It was amazing because we had no schedules to keep and we could have a different front yard every morning - from the Grand Canyon to Bryce Canyon to the Redwood Forest. Now that I`m in Los Angeles, I found a beautiful spot in Malibu to park it. Whenever my schedule permits, I stay in my Airstream for the weekend. It`s instant camping - a little piece of heaven.

People just love to bash LA. People say it`s so pretentious, so arrogant, so this and that. But it`s truly a wonderful place. You don`t have to go to the places where that stuff goes on. You don`t have to go to Beverly Hills, you don`t have to go to the parties. You can live up in the Lower Canyon and live such a perfectly healthy, beautiful, fun life with all your friends. You can drive two hours one way and be at the Joshua Tree desert, two hours one way you`re skiing at Big Bear. Sure, it can get full-on and that`s why it`s good to get out. But it`s too easy just to say, "Nup, I hate it. I`m not living there anymore. - NW Magazine, March 2000

New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

Working with Jack (Nicholson) is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can`t go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.

(on his first trip to America and landing Remington Steele) The trip to America, it was such a great joy to go there with Cassie, to take that leap of faith and go to the New World--all that nonsense you read about in books. But again it was a liberation. In Los Angeles, I rented a car from Rent-A-Wreck, a lime green Pacer, with a cushion, because the springs were coming through, and I got a map and went on my first interview in Hollywood. Somehow I found my way out to Laurel Canyon. I got up to the top of Mulholland Drive and the car broke down, blew up. I did eventually get to the interview and saw a casting director from Mary Tyler Moore Productions. Boom! They were looking for Remington Steele. The last thing I was looking for was a TV series. I went to America thinking I was going to work with Scorsese. Taxi Driver I`d seen about 10 times and Mean Streets; that`s where my brain was at. I was going to do movies. But I needed work. I went through several more interviews and then Cassie and I came home to Wimbledon. Then the call came: Would I return for a screen test? And it was, `My God, what have we done? What have we done? What are we going to do?` Panic, panic, panic. Don`t panic! We`ll go to America. We`ll take the kids to America. So Cass, the two kids and I hopped on a plane and went to America.

The part of the canyon I loved the most is still under 500 feet of water. I was lucky enough to have seen it in its pristine state.

I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff." "I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke `em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody`s got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.

Adding a second station in northern Gold Canyon, along with the move of the other Gold Canyon station to U.S. 60 should significantly improve our response times in an area that needs improvement,

Most people I`ve told about this think it`s great. They really want to latch on to a good cause, ... But some of them say, `Why do you have to hike the Grand Canyon ?`

I have the impression that the images that surround us today are worn out, they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. When I look at the postcards in tourist shops and the images and advertisements that surround us in magazines, or I turn on the television, or if I walk into a travel agency and see those huge posters with that same tedious and rickety image of the Grand Canyon on them, I truly feel there is something dangerous emerging here. The biggest danger, in my opinion, is television because to a certain degree it ruins our vision and makes us very sad and lonesome. Our grandchildren will blame us for not having tossing hand-grenades into TV stations because of commercials. Television kills our imagination and what we end up with are worn out images because of the inability of too many people to seek out fresh ones.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Taking action to acquire Billy Mack Canyon was simply being responsive to our mission.

When you have people enjoying the hills and hiking that evolves into the (Stough Canyon) nature center and then becomes a hub of the offerings up there,

I don`t think the solution is in the canyon, ... I don`t think that`s a good place for a concert of the size that he would like to hold there.

The canyon is the spiritual (place) of the Navajo people.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.