The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
BARRY LOPEZTo put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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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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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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