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Barry Lopez

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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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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Looks Stories Writing
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
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
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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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
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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Political Rivers Technology
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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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