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No place is a place until it has found its poet.

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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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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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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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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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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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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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
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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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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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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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We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.
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Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.
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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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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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