Barry Lopez Quotes About Nature
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One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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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 land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.
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