"It is the imagination that gives shape to…" — Barry Lopez
"It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe."
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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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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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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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Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
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