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

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
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
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
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 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
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
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
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
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
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

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