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 o…

- Wallace Stegner

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…

- Wallace Stegner

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

- Wallace Stegner

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the qu…

- Wallace Stegner

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together…

- Wallace Stegner

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

- Wallace Stegner

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

- Wallace Stegner

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

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