Quote by Barry López Download Open image ““on my right Baker Creek has cut a steep-banked gash into the badlands to the west.”” — Barry López ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds:” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The floor slopes slightly down toward the creek like it's thirsty and been trying to get down there ever since the first nail was… — Bill Brooks Copy Share Image
“the river Ankh, a waterway so muddy that it looks as if it is flowing upside down.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And so one more to the wandering road. Beyond Blackheath the highway began a steep and curvaceous descent towards Lithgow, where it skirted along… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.” — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
“Here, they grow in narrow cracks and gullies. But out in the Drylands, they grow on open plains.” — Skye Melki-Wegner Copy Share Image
“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“he is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
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 Image
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously… — 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 Image
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 the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in… — 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 Image
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that… — 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 of food, or be killed by a bear. Far less violent events, however, are the common experience of most people who travel in wild landscapes. A sublime encounter with perhaps the most essential attribute of wilderness… — 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 Image
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 Image
