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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

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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
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
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
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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
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

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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