Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopezis an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams and his Of Wolves and Menwas a National Book Award finalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 January 1945
CountryUnited States of America
imagination giving shapes
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
years giving sublime
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.
order giving imagination
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
memories giving people
Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.
giving needs stories
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
inspirational-life light expression
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
inspirational motivational struggle
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
men animal want
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.
land understanding urges
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
soul
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
love intelligent reason
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
Theres so much to be afraid of.
inspirational-life answers
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
long people trying
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 aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.