“Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view of earth, but it has a certain distance about it, it… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I had stopped my chair at that exact place, coming out, because right there the spice of wisteria that hung around the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
“Some people, I am told, have memories like computers, nothing to do but punch the button and wait for the print-out. Mine is more… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
“[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share
