National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, abs…

Wallace Stegner
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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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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ✨ Wallace Stegner (1990). The Spectator Bird, p.21, Penguin
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2000). Angle of Repose, p.362, Penguin
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea. ✨ Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). Where the bluebir … ▶

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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