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Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
Novelist
Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
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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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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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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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Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower you're large because you can't stand to be small.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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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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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there its roar shook both the earth and me.
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