There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
Wallace StegnerSomething will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved โ as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds โ because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed 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 StegnerHome is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
Wallace StegnerBut however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.
Wallace Stegner