The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
BARRY LOPEZIt is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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 is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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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 urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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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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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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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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The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
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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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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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