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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

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
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
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
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Admit Courage Place Universe
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
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
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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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Animal Forgiving Land
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation

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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