Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
BARRY LOPEZ
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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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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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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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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