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In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational 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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
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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Long People Trying
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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

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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