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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

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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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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Political Rivers Technology
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
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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
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 is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
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Consideration Human Land Life
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
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
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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Long People Trying
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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

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