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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.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Lake Mills
Iowa
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
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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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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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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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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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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
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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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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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