The wonders of the red rocks cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features… The glories and beauties of form, color and sound unite in the landscape… It has infinite variety and no part is ever duplicated. Its colors, although many and complex at any instant, change with the ascending and declining sun… You cannot see the entire spectrum in one view…but to see it you have to toil from month to month through this labyrinths…but if strength and courage are sufficient for the task, by a year’s toil a concept of sublimity can be obtained never again to be equaled on hither side of Paradise.”
John Wesley Powell, 1909
Red rocks at sundown, Emery, UT
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