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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

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
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 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
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 wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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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Fall Ignorance Land
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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 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
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
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
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle

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

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