Wallace Stegner Wilderness Quotes & Sayings

Every woman is beautiful. Every woman is amazing because every woman's heart is filled with the motherly instinct of unconditional love. — Debasish Mridha

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed, — Wallace Stegner

Greg had been nearly out the door, on his way next door to Shari's birthday party, when the phone rang.
"Hi, Greg. Why aren't you on your way to my party?" Shari had asked when he'd run to pick up the receiver.
"Because I'm on the phone with you," Greg had replied dryly. — R.L. Stine

My name's Saint," I whispered gravely into the microphone. "Are you ready to confess your sins? — Rachel Van Dyken

Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Wallace Stegner

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included. — Paul Mooney

Honesty is the key to Happiness.
Be always truthful to yourself, to
your feelings, emotions, needs and
desires & to others, no matter what! — Lily Amis

How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it. — Wallace Stegner

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 Stegner

Solberg; nature's greatest argument against cloning. — Lois Greiman

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you. — Herb Shriner

[Wild animals], and the beautiful landscapes that sustain them ... possess a value and a virtue regardless of our dwindling connection with them. It seems that there is a virtue and a wisdom in keeping some things beyond our reach: that the protection of wilderness itself is imperative ... We have touched, and are consuming, everything. The world is very old, and we are so new. I like the feeling of awe
what the late writer Wallace Stegner called 'the birth of awe'
in beholding wild country not reduced by man. I like to remember that it is wild country that gives rise to wild animals; and that the marvelous specificity of wild animals reminds us to wake up, to let our senses be inflamed by every scent and sound and sight and taste and touch of the world. I like to remember that we are not here forever, and not here alone, and that the respect with which we behold the wild world matters, if anything does. — Rick Bass

I know you're not looking for a relationship, or even a fuck buddy, but ... are you looking for anything that I can be? — Kaje Harper

I will tell you, I replied; justice, which is the subject of our enquiry, is, as you know, sometimes spoken of as the virtue of an individual, and sometimes as the virtue of a State. True, he replied. And is not a State larger than an individual? It is. Then in the larger the quantity of justice is likely to be larger and more easily discernible. I propose therefore that we enquire into the nature of justice and injustice, first as they appear in the State, and secondly in the individual, proceeding from the greater to the lesser and comparing them. That, — Plato

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating — Mike Tyson