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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.

Barry Lopez

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
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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

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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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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