There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
BARRY LOPEZIt is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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 most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
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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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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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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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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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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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