We 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 extraordinary things about the… — 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
