real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
BARRY LOPEZWe 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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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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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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