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.
BARRY LOPEZ
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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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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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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If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
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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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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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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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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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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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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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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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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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