The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
BARRY LOPEZThe land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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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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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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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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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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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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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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