Wallace Stegner People Quotations

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

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,

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.

When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

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.