Barry Lopez Quotes

Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams and his Of Wolves and Men was a National Book Award finalist. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. January 1945   •   Other names Barry Holstun Lopez, بری لوپز, バリー・ロペス
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Famous Barry Lopez Quotes

“In the west, we believe we are the most progressive and socially just, but a lot of that is just a hopeful illusion.”

On the West’s environmental thinking in “'We're living in emergency times': nature writer Barry Lopez's dire warning” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/07/barry-lopez-horizons-environment-climate-change in The Guardian (2019 May 7)

“I imagined in everybody I passed there was some story that they carried with them that would break your heart. So how could you have the temerity to approach that person and say, here's what's wrong with you?”

On learning empathy after a cancer diagnosis in “Writer Barry Lopez Reflects On A Life Traveling Beyond The 'Horizon'” https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707358144/barry-lopez-shares-6-places-that-shaped-his-world-understanding-in-horizon in NPR (2019 Mar 27)

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