"Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are……" — 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 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 the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive."
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47 Quotes by Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez has 47 quotes on this site.
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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy…
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The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward…
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If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the…
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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about…
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The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like…
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to…
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I…
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Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but…
— John Ruskin
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The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science…
— Jacob Bronowski
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To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence…
— Eric Hoffer
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons…
— Marlene Dietrich
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I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of…
— Joe Manchin
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his…
— Marshall McLuhan
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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate…
— Ayn Rand
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know,…
— Pat Robertson
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I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to…
— Wallis Simpson
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