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“We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.”

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Barry Lopez, born on January 6, 1945, is an American author known for his exploration of nature, culture, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. more

“Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.”

Thinking Long Stills Feelings Light Fall Grows Animal Land Summer Spring Breaths South Breathing Comes And Goes Departure Migration

Book:Arctic Dreams

Source: Arctic Dreams

“We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.”

World Helping Courses Calling Authority Over It Save The World

Author:Barry Lopez

“One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.”

Men Dream Nature Regret Civilization Extremes Live Without Regrets

Author:Barry Lopez

“The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.”

May Law Universe Views Steps Cold Bears Happenings Lifetime Fruit Complexity Productive Our Future Chemicals Engaging Extinction Intimidated Composure

Author:Barry Lopez

“I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.”

Thinking Body Light Christian White Half Vision Focus Easier Negative Raised Other Half White Light Nihilist

Author:Billy Corgan

“The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.”

Understanding Land Urges

Author:Barry Lopez

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

Fall Imagine Land Ignorance Stifling

Book:Arctic Dreams

Source: Arctic Dreams

“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.”

Humans Land Human Life Consideration Transcendent

Book:Arctic Dreams

Source: Arctic Dreams

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

Knows Inspirational Heart Soul Body Earth Hopelessness Restoration Enviromental

Author:Barry Lopez

“Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.”

Quality Century Despise

Author:Barry Lopez

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