To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“I felt a calmness birds can bring to people; and, quieted, I sensed here the outlines of the oldest mysteries: the nature… — Barry López Copy Share Image
“I took several long walks in the Wright and adjacent Taylor Valleys. I did not feel insignificant on these journeys, dwarfed or… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions.… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its dark surface… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“Wilderness travel can be extremely taxing and dangerous. You can fall into a crevasse, flip your kayak, lose your way, become hypothermic,… — Barry López Copy Share Image
“Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect of the pleasing, vaguely erotic sensation… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“In Antartica, The Wright and half a dozen other valleys in the Central Transantarctic Mountains are collectively referred to as the dry… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“on my right Baker Creek has cut a steep-banked gash into the badlands to the west.” — Barry López Copy Share
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you — Barry Lopez Copy Share
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
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… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
“Wilderness travel can be extremely taxing and dangerous. You can fall into a crevasse, flip your kayak, lose your way, become hypothermic, run out… — Barry López Copy Share
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,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple:… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
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… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
