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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
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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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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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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 most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also 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 were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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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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After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
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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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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 are fossils in the making.
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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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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.
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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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