Wallace Stegner Quotes About Sanity

Quotes about: Sanity

• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed 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 We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

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  Country, Character, Mean

• 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.

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  Country, Nature, Mean

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.333, Modern Library

• What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. 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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  Moving, Sunset, Space

• 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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  Giving, Green, Littles

• One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

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  Mean, World, Chance

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.119, Vintage

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