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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Barry Lopez

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
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Character Land Mind
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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
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
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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Stories Trying Typewriters
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
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
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
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
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’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
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
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

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