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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.

Barry Lopez

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
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
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
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
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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Animal Blood Eerie
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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.
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Stories Trying Typewriters
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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Character Land Mind
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
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
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

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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