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 LOPEZThe most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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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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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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Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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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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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
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