The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
BARRY LOPEZWe simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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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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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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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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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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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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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.
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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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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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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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