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.
BARRY LOPEZMy 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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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 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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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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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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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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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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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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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 are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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