“Like the rest of America, California is unformed, innovative, ahistorical, hedonistic, acquisitive, and energetic—only more so.”
—Wallace Stegner. "California: The Experimental Society" Saturday Evening Post, 1967.
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Tardy #QOTD for August 1, 2023,from The Sound of Mountain Water:The Changing American West by #WallaceStegner "When it fully learns that cooperation,not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it,then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins." #TheWest

“Wilderness is the geography of hope." - Wallace Stegner
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“Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity.” - Wallace Stegner
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“You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns.” - Wallace Stegner
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"Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity." - Wallace Stegner
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Minimalist artwork of the upper story of a house with two red chimneys provides the cover to Wallace Stegner's book Crossing to Safety

30-day TBR challenge. Choose 30 books on your current TBR shelf/shelves, list, library hold—wherever. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. 3/30 Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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“We write to make sense of it all.”
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"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."

✒ #WallaceStegner, novelist, was #BOTD 18 Feb 1909 #Literature

"And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam, you can still believe you are doing fine." ~ Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety #favoritelinefridays #wallacestegner

"And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam, you can still believe you are doing fine." ~ Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
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