Quotes About Gorges

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments.

The trip down the Yangtze from Chongqing (formerly Chungking, Chiang Kai-shek's World War II capital in Sichuan) to Yichang at the exit of the gorges took one and a half days. To look up and see, high up on the perpendicular surface of sheer rock, huge Chinese characters carved thousands of years ago to commemorate events and ideas was to be awed.