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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

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 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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
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
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
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
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
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
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

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

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