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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

Barry Lopez

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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Stories Trying Typewriters
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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
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
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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

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