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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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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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.

BARRY LOPEZ

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.
BARRY LOPEZ
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
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

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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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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.

BARRY LOPEZ

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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Eerie
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Moving Real
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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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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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.

BARRY LOPEZ

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 Responsibility
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.

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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Stories
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Middle
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

BARRY LOPEZ

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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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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 Trying
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.

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
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.

BARRY LOPEZ

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
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

BARRY LOPEZ

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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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?

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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