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.
BARRY LOPEZIn behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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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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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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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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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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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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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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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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