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.
BARRY LOPEZThe 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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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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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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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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