Barry Lopez Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

  Barry Lopez

  Animal, Land, Forgiving

  Barry Lopez (2011). “Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories”, p.45, Vintage

• It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

  Barry Lopez

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Barry Lopez (2016). “Of Wolves and Men”, p.213, Open Road Media

• I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

  Barry Lopez

  Animal, Blood, Eerie

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.61, Open Road Media

• Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

  Barry Lopez

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.218, Open Road Media

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