"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

"Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?"
— Wallace Stegner (Crossing to Safety)

"it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers."
— Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)

"No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide."
— Wallace Stegner (Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier)