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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

Barry Lopez

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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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
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

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