The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah, in the western United States. They are so named because the cliffs of Cretaceous sandstone that cap many of the south-facing buttes appear similar to a shelf of books.
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Famous quotes containing the words book and/or cliffs:
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
And he said to her, Try to be true to me,
And Ill do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)