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

Barry Lopez

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
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Animal Doe Men
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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Consideration Human Land Life
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
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Atmosphere People Thinking
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Alive Giving Stories
If 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.
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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love

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