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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

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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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 is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise

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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