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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

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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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