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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Barry Lopez

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
BARRY LOPEZ

Land Mean Way
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
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
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 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 gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Admit Courage Place Universe
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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 writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
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Looks Stories Writing
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
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
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

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

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