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

Barry Lopez

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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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 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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
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
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
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

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

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