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.
WALLACE STEGNER, Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
WALLACE STEGNER, All the Little Live Things
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
WALLACE STEGNER, All the Little Live Things
Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
WALLACE STEGNER, All the Little Live Things
