Wallace Stegner Quote

It has never been man's gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.


"The War Between the Rough Riders and the Bird Watchers" (1959 address; reprinted in Wildlands and Our Civilization, David Brower, editor, 1964, and in Voices for the Wilderness, William Schwarz, editor, 1970, page 76)


It has never been man's gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.

It has never been man's gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.

It has never been man's gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.

It has never been man's gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.