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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

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.
BARRY LOPEZ

Book Confused Thinking
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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Heart Inspirational Soul
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
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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Political Rivers Technology
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
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
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
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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Atmosphere People Thinking
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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Expression Inspirational Life Light
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life

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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