Barry Lopez

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born

January 06, 1945 in Port Chester, New York, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.barrylopez.com/

genre

Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature, Literature & Fiction

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Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.

Lopez has been described as "the nation's premier nature writer" by the San Francisco Chronicle. In his non-fiction, he frequently examines the relationship between human culture and physical landscape, while in his fiction he addresses issues of intimacy, ethics and identity.

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Books by Barry Lopez

Average rating: 4.16 · 3,501 ratings · 395 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Arctic Dreams 4.19 avg rating — 1,122 ratings — published 1986 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Of Wolves and Men 4.29 avg rating — 468 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Crossing Open Ground 4.11 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Desert Notes/River Notes by Barry Lopez, Polk 4.24 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory 4.23 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Winter Count 4.14 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Crow and Weasel by Barry Lopez, Tom Pohrt (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Resistance by Barry Lopez, Alan Magee 3.68 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren 4.11 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories 3.77 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”
― Barry Lopez

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“Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves. ”
― Barry Lopez, Crow and Weasel

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“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.”
― Barry Lopez

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