“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.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsGivingPersonsSaidSometimesStoriesCareRememberMemoriesAliveOne ThingNeededStaying AliveBadgersStory People Author:Barry Lopez
“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.” NeedsPersonsSometimesStoriesAliveInspireStorytellingStorytellerTelling StoriesStaying Alive Author:Barry Lopez
“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.” KnowsNeedsMayStoriesSpeakLanguageCommunityAliveShareLandExtraordinaryCompanionConversesExtraordinary Things Author:Barry Lopez
“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.” IfsNeedsDoeMatterProblemFormNightImaginationEffortEnemyDoubtLonelinessExerciseCallingConversationAnxietyRelationEnormousDevotionTendenciesOur LoveReciprocityGood Conversation Author:Barry Lopez
“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.” IfsNeedsGivingPersonsSometimesStoriesCareAliveNeededStorytellingStorytellerStaying Alive Author:Barry Lopez
