Quotes by Barry Lpez, Crossing Open Ground

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“One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it--like that between the sparrow and the twig. The difference between...”
— Barry Lpez, Crossing Open Ground
landscape nature understanding

“Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface of green ocean water at twenty knots. At fifty tons it is the largest carnivore on earth. Imagine ...”
— Barry Lpez, Crossing Open Ground
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“A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen exposed nearly its oldest part. I had lost my sense of urgency, rekindled a sense of what people were, ...”
— Barry Lpez, Crossing Open Ground
awe beauty connection ecology

“I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one we see-not only the line and color of the land and its shading at different times of the day, bu...”
— Barry Lpez, Crossing Open Ground
animals awe balance beauty

“I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon to visit. Once in a lifetime, even, is enough. To feel the stripping down, an ebb of the press of ...”
— Barry Lpez, Crossing Open Ground
awe beauty calm colorado-river

“Occasionally we glimpse the South Rim, four or five thousand feet above. From the rims the canyon seems oceanic; at the surface of the river the feeling is intimate. To someone up there with binocu...”
— Barry Lpez, Crossing Open Ground
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