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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

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
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
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise

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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