Quotes by Barry Lopez

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 scientists chary.

Diverse Society

Mean

Space

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

Exercise

Loneliness

Night

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

Divine

Eden

Patterns

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Inspirational

Motivational

Struggle

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Heart

Inspirational

Soul

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.

Animal

Blood

Eerie

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.

Alive

Giving

Stories

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

Fall

Ignorance

Land

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

Giving

Imagination

Wise

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Contradiction

Inspirational Life

Middle

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Eerie

Entrepreneur

Exercise

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Fall

Gaps

Giving

Hands

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Human Life

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Inspirational Life

Inspire

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May

Mean

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Quotes by Barry Lopez

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.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

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.

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.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

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