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Barry Lopez quotes

American Author January 6, 1945

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Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood. 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
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good... Barry Lopez
The range of the human mind, the scale and depth of the metaphors the mind is capable of manufacturing as it grapples with the universe, stand in stunning contrast to the belief that there is only one reality, which is man's, or worse, that only one culture among the many on earth possesses the truth. To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, "There could be more, there could be things we don't understand," is not to damn knowledge. It is to take a wider view. It is to permit yourself an... Barry Lopez
I took several long walks in the Wright and adjacent Taylor Valleys. I did not feel insignificant on these journeys, dwarfed or shrugged off by the land, but superfluous. It is a difficult landscape to enter, and to develop a rapport with. It is not inimical or hostile, but indifferent, utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof. Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez quote: "The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination...."
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez quote: "Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive."
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. 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
Barry Lopez quote: "We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have..."
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit 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
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez quote: "Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is..."
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. Barry Lopez

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