For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
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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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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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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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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 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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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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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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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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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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