One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
BARRY LOPEZThere are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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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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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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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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There’s so much to be afraid of.
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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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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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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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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 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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Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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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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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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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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