Wallace Stegner Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

  Wallace Stegner

  Zoos, Dirty, Book

  Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). “The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner”, Counterpoint

• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Nature, Rocks, People

  Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). “The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner”, Counterpoint

• Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

  Wallace Stegner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier”, p.36, Penguin

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