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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

Barry Lopez

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.
BARRY LOPEZ

Education Learning Time
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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 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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
People think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.
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Book Confused Thinking
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

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