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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 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
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
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
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 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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

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