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 LOPEZSometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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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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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand 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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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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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
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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 wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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