My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
Barry LopezThe 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 with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard...be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.
Barry LopezWould the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
Barry LopezThe land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
Barry Lopez