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

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
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Looks Stories Writing
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
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
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

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

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