As Balf writes, "If the questing soul needs nourishment in places where the human feels speck-sized, where they are absolutely bowed before the force and cataclysmic beauty of nature, then a deep white-water gorge is one of life's obvious destinations".
The Coat of Arms of the Royal Society, is "in a dexter corner of a shield argent our three Lions of England, and for crest a helm adorned with a crown studded with florets, surmounted by an eagle of proper colour holding in one foot a shield charged with our lions: supporters two white hounds gorged with crowns", with the motto of "nullius in verba".
Caldwell, however, won't let facts get in the way of the many eagerly consumed chapattis rising up his white British reader's gorge, though a reference to Pakistan "in the 19th century" does make one wonder whether Caldwell can tell his brown folks apart.
Monet eliminates the horizon in a close-up of the torrents of the Petite Creuse and then pulls back to depict the river in its gorge, its white foam highlighting the water the way red, pink and chartreuse highlight the dark slopes.
Beneath Broken Top mountain, I hiked past waterfalls in the Tumalo gorge, the towering white water-knives cool among the juniper, then sat down on a gravel bank to read Steinbeck.
In fact, it is disconcerting to look across the gorge to the white houses nestled tightly under the rock ledges and be reminded of Mesa Verde, but then to have the spell broken by the sight of a small automobile tucked into its cavelike garage.
The entrance to the gorge is a tempest of white water and white noise, where the cliffs suddenly rise to 350 feet and house enormous concrete hydroelectric plants.
Below Leh, the cultivated plain narrows to a steeply descending gorge, a 22km white-knuckle ride that left us soaked, chilly and exhilarated.
By regularly gorging on the white bread that's complimentary at restaurants, you're spiking your insulin.
That was my mother to a T. Brendan fell in love with JT during their white-water slosh down the Gorge of Certain Death, which they somehow narrowly survived.
