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.
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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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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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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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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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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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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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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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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