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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
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Lake Mills
Iowa
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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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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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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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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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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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.
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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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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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