Wallace Stegner Quotes

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

There are so many opportunities to see the sun go down in the evening and the sun come up in the morning. The colors change on the trees, on the snow. I'm surrounded by people who are friendly and helpful.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

I really want to see New Zealand; it's a beautiful place.

As a photographer, God's light in Southern California is something unlike I've ever seen on planet Earth. There's a beauty about it, especially in the afternoon that is so pretty.

Beauty surrounds us.

Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Earth has not anything to show more fair.

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

I hope we have American-topias.

I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.