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 LOPEZThe opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
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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 wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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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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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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