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Wallace Stegner Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.



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.

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.



You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.



Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.



Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.



She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.



Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.




Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.



Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

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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