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Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

Barry Lopez

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 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 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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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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Land Mean Way
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
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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