Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of Temples

III THE TEMPLE OVER THE CAÑON, SEGESTA

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EVERYONE advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I went; but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Cañon. There I saw Nature’s compositions: here was one made by man—finer, though not so big—for bigness has nothing to do with art.

Illustration from Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of Temples Reproductions of a Series of Lithographs Made by Him in the Land of Temples, March-June 1913, Together with Impressions and Notes by the Artist.