The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
BARRY LOPEZPeople think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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 wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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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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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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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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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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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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It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
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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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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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