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

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Source : Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.18, Open Road Media

Barry Lopez

#Fall Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Land Quotes

“It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin.”
“What is clear is that consumers know a calorie isn't a calorie. There are good fats and bad fats and good proteins and bad ones.”
“I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.”

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“Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.”
“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”
“So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.”
“It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.”
“Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin and sorrow and suffering and evil abound, so that we may let You teach us so to react to them, that out of them we can create lovely qualities to live forever. That is really the only satisfactory way of dealing with evil. Not simply binding it so that it cannot work harm, but whenever possible overcoming it with good.”

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