"It does not demean men to want to……" — Barry Lopez

"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 for it."

— Barry Lopez

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47 Quotes by Barry Lopez

Barry Lopez has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy…
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward…
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the…
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about…
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like…
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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