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Barry Lopez

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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Alive Giving Stories
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
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
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

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