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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Environmentalist
Historian
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Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
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Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
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Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
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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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It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.
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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 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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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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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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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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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly
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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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Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.
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How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.
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