Wallace Stegner quote: Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... ...

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 ...

~ Wallace Stegner ~

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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ...

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