The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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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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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who’ve been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we’re living in, I put my faith in those people.
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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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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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