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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Barry Lopez

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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Political Rivers Technology
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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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Consideration Human Land Life
I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
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Animal Blood Eerie
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
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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Character Land Mind
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
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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Stories Trying Typewriters
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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
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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Education Learning Time
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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

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