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
land understanding urges
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
animal land forgiving
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
land community needs
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 our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.
fall ignorance land
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
mean land way
The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
attitude simple land
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard...be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.
character land mind
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
land consideration human-life
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
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.
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.