Abyss Quote by Barry Lopez

“on my right Baker Creek has cut a steep-banked gash into the badlands to the west.”

— Barry López

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

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

— Barry Lopez

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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