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

Barry Lopez

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
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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Calling Helping World
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
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
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
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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Fall Ignorance Land
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
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 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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Land Mean Way
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise

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

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