The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
BARRY LOPEZThe wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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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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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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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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