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

Barry Lopez

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.
BARRY LOPEZ

Dream Nature Regret
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
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 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
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
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real

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

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