Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
Wallace StegnerNational parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
Wallace StegnerI wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.
Wallace StegnerIn a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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