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

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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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
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
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 most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
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
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
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
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
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
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
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 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
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

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