There’s so much to be afraid of.
BARRY LOPEZIf 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.
More Barry Lopez Quotes
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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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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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who’ve been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we’re living in, I put my faith in those people.
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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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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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The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in 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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real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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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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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 wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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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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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
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