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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Barry Lopez

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
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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Stories Trying Typewriters
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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Atmosphere People Thinking
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
BARRY LOPEZ

Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
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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Dream Nature Regret
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
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
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 is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Expression Inspirational Life Light
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

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