Wallace Stegner Might Quotations

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.