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

Barry Lopez

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
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Admit Courage Place Universe
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
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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who’ve been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we’re living in, I put my faith in those people.
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Long People Trying
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges

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

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