The Rediscovery of North America Quotes

“When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions.”
― Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America

“so that what is left of what we have subjugated might determine its own life.”
― Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America

“if, in measuring our love, we feel anger, I think we have a further obligation. It is to develop a hard and focused anger at what continues to be done to the land not so that people can survive, but so that a relatively few people can amass wealth.”
― Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America

“But it is not good to forget, not to face squarely, what happened,”
― Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America

“There is not the raw material in the woods, or beyond, to make all of us rich. And in striving for it, we will only make ourselves, all of us, poor.”
― Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America

“What we need is to discover the continent again. We need to see the land with a less acquisitive frame of mind.”
― Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America