There’s so much to be afraid of.
BARRY LOPEZI know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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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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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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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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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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