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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

Barry Lopez

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
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 most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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
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
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
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
The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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Compassion Heart Love
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
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Fall Ignorance Land
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
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 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

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

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