There’s so much to be afraid of.
BARRY LOPEZIt is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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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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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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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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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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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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