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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

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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 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
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise

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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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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