Meandering in wide open spaces . . .

Today is the birthday of Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993), historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.

"A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter."
— Wallace Stegner

"You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine."
— Wallace Stegner

"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."
— Wallace Stegner

"Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it."
— Wallace Stegner

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