Barry Lopez Quotes

You are a guest of nature - behave.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

A man should carry nature in his head.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies. We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

We are the living planet!

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.