“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
“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.” WayWantGivingYearsHumansMayDifficultForgetPleasureTeachReturnOffersPerceptionIndifferentSublimeRelaxationBreezeYear OneInsouciance Author:Barry Lopez
“Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?” WayPoliticalTechnologyRiversEnvironmentalCorporationsBetrayedAvarice Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
“When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.” IfsThinkingWayGivingPersonsLongHomeLanguageNaturePayAttentionImagineLandFitConversationApproachIntelligentComplexesCreditOpeningObservationLandscapePay AttentionIntelligent Conversation Author:Barry Lopez
“The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.” WayMeanLandOne Way Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
