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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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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?
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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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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.
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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.
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I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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[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 by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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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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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
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