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.
BARRY LOPEZMy 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.
BARRY LOPEZThroughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
BARRY LOPEZThe land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
BARRY LOPEZOne must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
BARRY LOPEZThe land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
BARRY LOPEZYou continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
BARRY LOPEZHave 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 LOPEZIn behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
BARRY LOPEZThe wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
BARRY LOPEZIf 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.
BARRY LOPEZSometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
BARRY LOPEZTo put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
BARRY LOPEZThe opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
BARRY LOPEZThe 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.
BARRY LOPEZThere are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
BARRY LOPEZreal beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
BARRY LOPEZ