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Barry Lopez

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
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
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
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
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
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
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
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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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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

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