The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
BARRY LOPEZIf 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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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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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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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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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
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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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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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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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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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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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