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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.

Barry Lopez

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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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
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
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason

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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