Greg Hamerly @ghamerly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Wallace Stegner, 1960 (excerpt): "We need wilderness preserved--as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds--because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed... 100 0
Greg Hamerly @ghamerly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025...The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it. It is good for us when we are young, because of the incomparable sanity it can bring briefly, as vacation and rest, into our insane lives... 100 0
Greg Hamerly @ghamerly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025...It is important to us when we are old simply because it is there--important, that is, simply as an idea." www.wilderness.org/articles/art...wilderness.orgWallace StegnerFormer governing council member Wallace Stegner was best known as a western literary giant, but he was also a committed conservationist. 010 0
