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

Barry Lopez

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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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 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
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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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Animal Blood Eerie
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
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
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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Education Learning Time
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 are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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

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