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.
BARRY LOPEZIt 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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