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
Barry Lopez quotes about
universe
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
eden patterns divine
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.
apples temptation gaps
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
inspirational motivational struggle
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.