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.
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
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
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
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…
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
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…
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences - Wallace Stegner
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
[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
[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…
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. - Wallace Stegner
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us. - Wallace Stegner
We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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
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.
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
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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