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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 Lopez

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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Alive Giving Stories
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Expression Inspirational Life Light
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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Calling Helping World
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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Political Rivers Technology
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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 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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Looks Stories Writing
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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Consideration Human Land Life
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
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Dream Nature Regret
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much

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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