I Will Let Him Go This Time

Some people have said I conquered the Colorado. I don't say so. It has never been conquered and never will. Anyone whom it allows to go through its canyons and see it's wonders should feel thankful and privileged.

The river probably thought, "He is such a lonesome, ignorant, unimportant and insignificant pitiful little creature, with such a short time to live, that I will let him go this time and try to teach him something."

It has been less kind to many prouder people than I.

--from the journal of Buzz Holmstrom on a solo raft trip through the Grand Canyon in 1937