There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
BARRY LOPEZTo put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
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In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
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Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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People think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.
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The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
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Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who’ve been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we’re living in, I put my faith in those people.
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