All Wallace Stegner Quotes
- Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. Any
- The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. Act
- 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… Air
- 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… Been
- 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… Ambition
- 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. Abiding
- That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm. All
- 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… Associating
- Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future. Every Green
- Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through… Air
- It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and… Among
- 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… Afterwards
- The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. Brook
- There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences All
- We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. Chooses
- The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. Adaptation
- [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. Apologetic
- A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and… Banana
- Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer. Forget
- Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery. Chance
- In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth. Agenda
- A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose… Assed
- Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of… Anyone
- The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. Accident
- Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as… Approve