Best 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. Atmosphere
- 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
- People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all… Afraid
- 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… Actually Get
- When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the… Approach
- The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it. Decide
- Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. All
- Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care… Alive
- Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. Alive
- 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… Alive
- Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are… Abdicate
- Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a… Altogether
- Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel… Abound
- For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. Abyss
- 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… Animal
- 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… Animal
- Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you? Animal
- real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it. Beauty
- No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence… All
- 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 and… Adventure
- The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you Exerts
- To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. Bind