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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 Lopez

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Alive Giving Stories
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
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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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
People think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.
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Book Confused Thinking
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

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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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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