Barry Lopez - Of Wolves and Men (1978)

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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

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The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

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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.

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To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

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As is the case with so many things, deep appreciation and a sense of loss have arrived simultaneously.

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