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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Barry Lopez

There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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 most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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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Looks Stories Writing
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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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Alive Giving Stories
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
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
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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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
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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Land Mean Way
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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Fall Ignorance Land

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

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