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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Barry Lopez

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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Political Rivers Technology
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
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Character Land Mind
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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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Alive Giving Stories
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life

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