"You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from……" — Barry Lopez
"You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do."
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Barry Lopez
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47 Quotes by Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez has 47 quotes on this site.
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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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We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the…
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I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less…
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Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for…
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I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
— John Diefenbaker
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In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption…
— Edward Abbey
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A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have…
— Max De Pree
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I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.
— Doug Peacock
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I think a good way to get into a movie is to show up where they're making the movie, then…
— Jack Handey
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Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings
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Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus…
— Richard Hammond
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I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I…
— Nancy Horan
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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