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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.

Barry Lopez

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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Animal Blood Eerie
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
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
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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Stories Trying Typewriters
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
You can’t learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.
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Education Learning Time
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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Animal Forgiving Land
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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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Fall Ignorance Land
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
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Character Land Mind
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

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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