My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
BARRY LOPEZThe 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 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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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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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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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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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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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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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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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