Quotes by : Barry López

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge....

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

Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect....

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....

An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain....

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees....

I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounters,....

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

Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface of....