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Barry Lopez

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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
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
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
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Dream Nature Regret
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
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
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

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