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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

Barry Lopez

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
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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
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
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 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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story

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