Wallace Stegner Quotes

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Wallace Stegner

• Beauty
• Gardens
• Lawns
• Associating

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• You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Beauty
  • Gardens
  • Lawns