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

Barry Lopez

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
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 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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Education Learning Time
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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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Character Land Mind
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
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
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.
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Calling Helping World
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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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Book Confused Thinking
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real

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

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