Barry Lopez
Born: 01-01-1945
Barry Lopez was an acclaimed American author and essayist known for his profound works on nature and human relationships with the environment. His award-winning book, "Arctic Dreams," won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Lopez's writing, characterized by meticulous research and lyrical prose, often explores themes of ethics, intimacy, and the interconnectedness of all life. His contributions have significantly influenced contemporary environmental literature and thought.
Book summaries for books written by Barry Lopez
Quotes
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs more defenders.
Each rock, each tree, each organism is a text, the earth a book that we read and rewrite.
Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water.
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it.
The landscape is a moral and ethical context for all life, including our own.
A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.
The more one knows of this world, the more one finds it intolerable.
The Arctic has a way of making us feel small and insignificant.
The natural world is the refuge of the spirit, the place where I go when I need to find who I am.
The land is not something that we can buy or sell. It is not a commercial asset, a consumer item, or a tourist attraction.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.