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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?

Barry Lopez

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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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
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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Land Mean Way
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
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
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 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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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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Looks Stories Writing
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise

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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