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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

Barry Lopez

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
People 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.
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Book Confused Thinking
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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
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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Animal Doe Men
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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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Animal Forgiving Land
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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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Animal Blood Eerie
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
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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Atmosphere People Thinking
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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Fall Ignorance Land

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