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Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
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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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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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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 quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
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A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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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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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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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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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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History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
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It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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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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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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