In this eternal paligenesis by which continents themselves are forever laid to rest and reborn anew out of their dead selves, nothing is static, nothing is still. Not even the great pyramid of the Colorado. Everything is alive, dynamic with constant change. Even the stones breathe; water is electric; the air is luminous . . .
... the great red river, as the instrument of the hand of change, has written its ultimate meaning on the vast palimpset of the living land. Here, if only for an instant, we can sometimes read it, still engraven on the pages of its uncovered terraces . . .
We measure minutes. The river ignores millenniums.
-- FRANK WATERS