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Barry Lopez

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


— Barry Lopez


#giving #language #life

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


— Barry Lopez


#of-wolves #reflections #wolf #imagination

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


— Barry Lopez


#courage #our #place #simply #understand






About Barry Lopez






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Lopez along with Peter Matthiessen Terry Tempest Williams and James Galvin was hailed in Mark Tredinnick's The Land's Wild Music (Trinity University Press 2005) in which Tredinnick analyzed how the landscape nouriBarry Lopezd and developed Lopez's writing. Awards
National Book Award
Award in Literature American Academy of Arts and Letters
Lannan Literary Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
John Burroughs Medal
John Hay Medal
Three Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards
Two Oregon Book Awards
Two Pushcart Prizes
Two Christopher Medals
PEN Syndicated Fiction Award
Five National Science Foundation Antarctica Fellowships
Lannan Residency Fellowship
MacDowell Residency Fellowship
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Award
Oregon Governor's Award
Elected Fellow of the Explorer's Club. He regularly collaborates with other artists and writers and is active in national and international efforts toward reconciliation.

He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams (1986) and his Of Wolves and Men (1978) was a National Book Award finalist.

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