When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
BARRY LOPEZOne 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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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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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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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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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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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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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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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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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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