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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.

Barry Lopez

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
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
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
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 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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Character Land Mind
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life

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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