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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.

Barry Lopez

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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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Stories Trying Typewriters
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
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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Animal Blood Eerie
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
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
People think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.
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Book Confused Thinking
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
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.
BARRY LOPEZ

Education Learning Time
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
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

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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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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