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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

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
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Dream Nature Regret
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational 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
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
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
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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Animal Forgiving Land
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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

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

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