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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

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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
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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
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Fall Ignorance Land
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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

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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