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You have to get over the color green you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns you have to get used to an inhuman scale you have to understand geological time.

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
Beauty
Gardens
Understand
Quit
Used
Scale
Time
Quitting
Scales
Associating
Garden
Geological
Green
Lawns
Color
Inhuman

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