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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.

Barry Lopez

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
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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Animal Forgiving Land
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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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Consideration Human Land Life
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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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Looks Stories Writing
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
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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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
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
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
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
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 wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful

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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