Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopezis an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams and his Of Wolves and Menwas a National Book Award finalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 January 1945
CountryUnited States of America
animal land forgiving
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
memories giving people
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.
Theres so much to be afraid of.
animal blood eerie
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.
blood darkness growth
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.
men animal want
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
thinking people atmosphere
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
real moving darkness
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
giving needs stories
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.