For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
BARRY LOPEZMy 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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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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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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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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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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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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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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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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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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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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