Wallace Stegner livre Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner: 29 citations0 J'aime
Wallace Stegner: Citations en anglais
Wilderness Letter http://wilderness.org/bios/former-council-members/wallace-stegner (1960) <br class="br">Source: The Sound of Mountain Water
“Wisdom… is knowing what you have to accept.”
Wallace Stegner livre Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
Wallace Stegner livre The Spectator Bird
Variante: Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Source: The Spectator Bird
“There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.”
Source: All the Little Live Things (1967)
“He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.”
Wallace Stegner livre Crossing to Safety
Source: Crossing to Safety
“She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.”
Wallace Stegner livre Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner livre Crossing to Safety
Source: Crossing to Safety
“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”
Wallace Stegner livre Crossing to Safety
Source: Crossing to Safety
“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.”
Wallace Stegner livre Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
“I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow”
Source: All the Little Live Things
Wallace Stegner livre Crossing to Safety
Source: Crossing to Safety
“Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?”
Wallace Stegner livre Crossing to Safety
Source: Crossing to Safety
“You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.”
Wallace Stegner livre Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner livre Crossing to Safety
Source: Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner livre Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
It All Began with Conservation Smithsonian magazine, April 1990, pages 35-43
This is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and its Magic Rivers is a collection of essays and photographs edited by Wallace Stegner and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1955. This passage is from the collection's first essay, "The Marks of Human Passage", which is by Stegner (page 17).
Wilderness Letter http://wilderness.org/bios/former-council-members/wallace-stegner (1960)
“It has never been man’s gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.”
"The War Between the Rough Riders and the Bird Watchers" (1959 address; reprinted in Wildlands and Our Civilization, David Brower, editor, 1964, and in Voices for the Wilderness, William Schwarz, editor, 1970, page 76)
"The Best Idea We Ever Had" Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West, page 137