To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
BARRY LOPEZMy function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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