"Sometimes a person needs a story more than……" — Barry Lopez
"Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive."
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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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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
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