Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
BARRY LOPEZIt 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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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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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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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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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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.
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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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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
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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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