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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Barry Lopez

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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
You can’t learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.
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Education Learning Time
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
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
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
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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 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

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

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