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.
There's so much to be afraid of. - Barry Lopez
There's so much to be afraid of.
- Barry Lopez
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… - Barry Lopez
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…
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. - Barry Lopez
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They a… - Barry Lopez
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They a…
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach wit… - Barry Lopez
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach wit…
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth. - Barry Lopez
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as … - Barry Lopez
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as …
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourse… - Barry Lopez
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourse…
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. - Barry Lopez
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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