“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.” MindCharacterIndividualLandShapesLandscapeAffectedGenesInteriorsSubtletyExterior Author: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.” GivingMindMeanUseDesireGrowsLinesSpaceInformationPossibilityBearsLimitsScientistInterpretationDiverseDotsKernelGood MindDiverse Society Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
“No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself.” MindCultureGrowthExistenceMoralDarknessBloodHorrorConsciousOneselfCompassionateInherentDilemmaArcticConscious Mind Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
“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.” KnowsMindStillsMomentsSimpleAttitudeLandIdentityApproachRegardSacredAgingDeeperObligationOpeningSubtleThat MomentMundane Author:Barry Lopez
