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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

Barry Lopez

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  To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

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  The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

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

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  Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

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  I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

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  It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

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  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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  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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  We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

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  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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