Wallace Stegner
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"Wallace Earle Stegner" was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalism/environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.

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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

It is something-it can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

She saw objectives, not obstacles.