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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

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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 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
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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
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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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

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

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