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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Barry Lopez

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
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
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
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
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
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Animal Blood Eerie
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
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

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