"If I were to offer any advice to……" — Barry Lopez
"If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources."
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47 Quotes by Barry Lopez
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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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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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Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow…
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We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the…
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