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.
BARRY LOPEZIf 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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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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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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