Quotes by : Barry López

Occasionally we glimpse the South Rim, four or five thousand feet above. From the rims the canyon seems....

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live....

All we have is compassion and stories.

Stories do not give instruction, they do not explain how to love a companion or how to find God. They....

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess....

Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever....

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always....

Lying there, I thought of my own culture, of the assembly of books in the library at Alexandria; of the....

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary....

One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving....