Inspirational Quote by Barry Lopez Download Open image “The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.” — Barry Lopez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Land Learning Love Understanding Urges
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple:… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That… — Gary Paul Nabhan Copy Share Image
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we… — Barry Lopez Copy Share
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound division between it an ourselves. We have given up the understanding -- dropped it out of our language and so out of our thought -- that we and our country create one another, depend on one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“How can the land belong to any of us? We belong to the land!’ ‘What” — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“on my right Baker Creek has cut a steep-banked gash into the badlands to the west.” — Barry López Copy Share Image
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“Wilderness travel can be extremely taxing and dangerous. You can fall into a crevasse, flip your kayak, lose your way, become hypothermic, run out… — Barry López Copy Share Image
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,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
