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Barry Lopez

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
BARRY LOPEZ

Admit Courage Place Universe
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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 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
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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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 land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
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
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
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers

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