To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
BARRY LOPEZTo put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
BARRY LOPEZThe 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.
BARRY LOPEZWe 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.
BARRY LOPEZThroughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
BARRY LOPEZThe opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
BARRY LOPEZThere’s so much to be afraid of.
BARRY LOPEZOne 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 LOPEZMy function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
BARRY LOPEZWe simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
BARRY LOPEZYou continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
BARRY LOPEZreal beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
BARRY LOPEZOne must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
BARRY LOPEZThe land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
BARRY LOPEZIf 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.
BARRY LOPEZThe attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
BARRY LOPEZI 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.
BARRY LOPEZ