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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

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
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
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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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 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
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
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
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
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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Stories Trying Typewriters
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

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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