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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.
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One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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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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We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.
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We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
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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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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
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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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Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
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Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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