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Barry Lopez

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
BARRY LOPEZ

Heart Inspirational Soul
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 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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Land Mean Way
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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.
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Alive Giving Stories
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
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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Book Confused Thinking
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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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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
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

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