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.
BARRY LOPEZThe gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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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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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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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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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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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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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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