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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Barry Lopez

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
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Character Land Mind
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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Calling Helping World
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
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 attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Admit Courage Place Universe
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
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
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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Alive Giving Stories
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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

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