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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.

Barry Lopez

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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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Long People Trying
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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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Animal Blood Eerie
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
The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
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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Land Mean Way
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
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
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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Animal Forgiving Land
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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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Education Learning Time
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
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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Book Confused Thinking
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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Inspirational Motivational Struggle

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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