The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
BARRY LOPEZThe most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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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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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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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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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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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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You can’t learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.
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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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If 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.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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