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Us Quotes by Barry Lopez
- The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
- In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
- My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us…
- The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
- Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
- We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for…
- Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are…
- For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
- I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong