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For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Barry Lopez

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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 most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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.
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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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.
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Calling Helping World
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
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
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

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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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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