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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 opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
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
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
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
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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf

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