“A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.” MayMadNovelistsSignificanceRepresentation Author:Bernard DeVoto
“The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.” WritingMayReasonPaper Author:Bernard DeVoto
“It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.” MayFallWaterNatureTreeBloodEnvironmentalWildernessNervesAncestorPortionsElectricityConservationCurvesFloatsImperativesMother EarthSwansNature And EnvironmentWaterfallsSave Mother EarthNature Conservation Author:Bernard DeVoto
“One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.” MayFeltCitizensRemainsImpactPreservesParksInheritanceRenewalAmerican CitizensEnlargement Author:Bernard DeVoto
“This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.” IfsBelieveMayMomentsHoursWonderWatchesShadowEdgesForestsVioletValorRebornUnicornHush Author:Bernard DeVoto
