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Wallace Stegner Quotes

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him Picture Quote #1

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope Picture Quote #1

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst Picture Quote #1

We need wilderness preserved - as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds - because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed Picture Quote #1

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea Picture Quote #1

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships Picture Quote #1

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Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air Picture Quote #1

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human - to save our contact with nature of which we are a part Picture Quote #1

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time Picture Quote #1

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future Picture Quote #1

It is something - it can be everything - to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below Picture Quote #1

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards Picture Quote #1

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We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy Picture Quote #1

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process Picture Quote #1

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer Picture Quote #1

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur Picture Quote #1

You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine Picture Quote #1

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me? Picture Quote #1

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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures Picture Quote #1

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me Picture Quote #1

I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery Picture Quote #1

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy Picture Quote #1

What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money’s worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future Picture Quote #1

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship Picture Quote #1

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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence Picture Quote #1

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across Picture Quote #1

To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills Picture Quote #1

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world,... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples Picture Quote #1

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for Picture Quote #1

Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake Picture Quote #1

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I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him (Wallace Stegner Quotes) We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope (Wallace Stegner Quotes) National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst (Wallace Stegner Quotes) We need wilderness preserved - as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds - because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed (Wallace Stegner Quotes) If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea (Wallace Stegner Quotes) I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air (Wallace Stegner Quotes) It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human - to save our contact with nature of which we are a part (Wallace Stegner Quotes) You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future (Wallace Stegner Quotes) It is something - it can be everything - to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards (Wallace Stegner Quotes) We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy (Wallace Stegner Quotes) The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer (Wallace Stegner Quotes) You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur (Wallace Stegner Quotes) You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me? (Wallace Stegner Quotes) By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures (Wallace Stegner Quotes) I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me (Wallace Stegner Quotes) I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery (Wallace Stegner Quotes) We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy (Wallace Stegner Quotes) What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money’s worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence (Wallace Stegner Quotes) I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across (Wallace Stegner Quotes) To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills (Wallace Stegner Quotes) One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world,... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake (Wallace Stegner Quotes)

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