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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.

Barry Lopez

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
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
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
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
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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