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Barry Lopez quotes: Real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

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

Barry Lopez quotes: All we have is compassion and stories.

All we have is compassion and stories.

Barry Lopez quotes: My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

Barry Lopez quotes: Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

Barry Lopez quotes: I feel that my fingers have brushed one of life's deep, coursing threads ... Speak, even notice it, and it would disappear.

I feel that my fingers have brushed one of life's deep, coursing threads ... Speak, even notice it, and it would disappear.

Barry Lopez quotes: To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

Barry Lopez quotes: The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

Barry Lopez quotes: We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Barry Lopez quotes: It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

Barry Lopez quotes: The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Barry Lopez quotes: 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.

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.

Barry Lopez quotes: Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

Barry Lopez quotes: There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Barry Lopez quotes: For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Barry Lopez quotes: In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

Barry Lopez quotes: Men of character continued to sail to their death for men of greed.

Men of character continued to sail to their death for men of greed.

Barry Lopez quotes: Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Barry Lopez quotes: You smell like the woods.

You smell like the woods.

Barry Lopez quotes: I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Barry Lopez quotes: the world is ever so slightly but uncorrectably out of focus, that there are no absolutely precise answers. Whatever

the world is ever so slightly but uncorrectably out of focus, that there are no absolutely precise answers. Whatever

Barry Lopez quotes: One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Barry Lopez quotes: Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Barry Lopez quotes: The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Barry Lopez quotes: The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

Barry Lopez quotes: The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Barry Lopez quotes: There's so much to be afraid of.

There's so much to be afraid of.