The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
BARRY LOPEZYou 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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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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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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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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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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 wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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The 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.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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