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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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Political Rivers Technology
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 urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

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