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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

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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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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 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
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
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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Animal Blood Eerie
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
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
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

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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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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