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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Barry Lopez

There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

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