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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

Barry Lopez

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
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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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.
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Calling Helping World
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Expression Inspirational Life Light
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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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Book Confused Thinking
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
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Animal Doe Men
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
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Dream Nature Regret
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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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Land Mean Way
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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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Political Rivers Technology
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Alive Giving Stories

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

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