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

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

- 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…

- 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…

- Barry Lopez

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

- 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 …

- 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…

- Barry Lopez

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

- Barry Lopez