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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

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
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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Animal Doe Men
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
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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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Admit Courage Place Universe
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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 most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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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