Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.

Page is married to Lynn Stegner a novelist. Stegner also won the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird in 1977.

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18 1909 – April 13 1993) was an American historian novelist short story writer and environmentalist often called "The Dean of Western Writers". National Book Award in 1977. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.