Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the rema…

Wallace Stegner
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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. ✨ Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner, Counterpoint
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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. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2007). Crossing to Safety, p.6, Modern Library
There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2007). Crossing to Safety, p.32, Modern Library
I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2000). Angle of Repose, p.50, Penguin
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