Wallace Stegner Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: February 18, 1909 - April 13, 1993
Birthday: February 18
Death: April 13
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.
source: Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage
topic: Heart, Rivers, Glasses, Sped, White Water, World Water Day, Cool Water, Rivers And Mountains, Paddling
