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

Barry Lopez

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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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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Political Rivers Technology
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
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
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
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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Looks Stories Writing
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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 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

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

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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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