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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

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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
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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Long People Trying
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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Book Confused Thinking
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Expression Inspirational Life Light
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality

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

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