Barry Lopezreal beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.371Thought
Barry LopezWe simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it. ✨ FaceBook post byBarry Lopez from Mar 14, 2011372Reading
Barry LopezFor so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.361Life
Barry LopezWatching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the… ▶374Thought
Barry LopezOne 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. ✨ FaceBook post byBarr… ▶365HumanityReading
Barry LopezYou 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 o… ▶321Reflection
Barry LopezI 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. 345Time
Barry LopezTo put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.379Death
Barry LopezThe land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life. ✨ Barry Lopez (2013).… ▶313HumanityLifePhilosophy
Barry LopezWe keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most… ▶346Life
Barry LopezI know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.348HopeLove
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. ✨ FaceBook post byBa… ▶327LifeReadingTime
Barry LopezThe most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.328Love
Barry LopezIt is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. ✨ Barry Lopez (2004). Of Wolves and Men, p.285, Simon and Schuster307Hope
Barry LopezThe land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with … ▶3310ThoughtTime
Barry LopezConversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneline… ▶296LoveReading
Barry LopezHave 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? ✨ Ba… ▶263Politics
Barry LopezThere are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. ✨ Barry Lopez (2013). Arctic Dreams, p.529, Open Road Media231Thought
Barry LopezWould the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you? ✨ Barry Lopez (2011). Light Action in the Caribbean: S… ▶253DeathLife
Barry LopezWe cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.298Life
Barry LopezRemember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they a… ▶288HumanityLifeReading
Barry LopezEden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Ede… ▶233HumanityTime
Barry LopezIn behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. ✨ Barry Lopez (2013). Arctic Dreams, p.18, O… ▶212Reading
Barry LopezThe land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.289Love
Barry LopezWhat does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to… ▶256Life
Barry LopezIt 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 (2016). Of Wolves and Men, p.213, Ope… ▶256Humanity
Barry LopezThe wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you ✨ Barry Lopez (2016). Of Wolves and Men, p.11, Open Road Media2910HumanityPolitics
Barry LopezThe 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 li… ▶203Time
Barry LopezIf 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… ▶2610Life
Barry LopezThe gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.171Truth
