"My function as a writer is to provide……" — Barry Lopez
"My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet."
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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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Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow…
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More Atmosphere Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
— Alain de Botton
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
— Madeleine Albright
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
— Alexis Carrel
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
— Winston Churchill
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