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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

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 gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
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Land Mean Way
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
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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Consideration Human Land Life
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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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Calling Helping World
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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Long People Trying
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
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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Dream Nature Regret
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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

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