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Barry Lopez quotes about animal

American Author January 6, 1945

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The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its dark surface like pink swans, apparently asleep. Small, curved feathers, shed from their breasts, drifted away from them over the water on a light breeze. I did not move for an hour. It was a moment of such peace, every troubled thread in a human spirit might have uncoiled and sorted itself into a graceful order. Other flamingos stood in the shallows with diffident elegance in the falling... Barry Lopez
Why we should believe in wolf children seems somehow easier to understand than the ways we distinguish between what is human and what is animal behavior. In making such distinctions we run the risk of fooling ourselves completely. We assume that the animal is entirely comprehensible and, as Henry Beston has said, has taken form on a plane beneath the one we occupy. It seems to me that this is a sure way to miss the animal and to see, instead, only another reflection of our own ideas. Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez quote: "Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last..."
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you? Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez quote: "It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the..."
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it. Barry Lopez
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 fear with them like salt in blood. Barry Lopez

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