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.
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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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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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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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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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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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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