Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.
Barry LopezWould the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
Barry LopezOne 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.
Barry LopezThe wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
Barry LopezConversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.
Barry Lopez