Barry Lopez: A Sense of Reverence for Life

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. — Barry Lopez

~~~~ Good News of the Day: His travels have taken him to some of the most inhospitable places on the earth, outside the furthest reaches of human civilization. But Barry Lopez always returns to his home in Oregon to write about what he has seen. And though nature is often his inspiration, it is not his subject, Lopez tells Bill Moyers, “I’m not writing about nature. I’m writing about humanity. And if I have a subject, it is justice. And the rediscovery of the manifold way in which our lives can be shaped by the recovery of a sense of reverence for life.” Lopez defines reverence as understanding “that the world will always be there, no matter how sophisticated our technologies of probing reality become. The great mystery will be there forever. Lopez was Bill Moyers’ last guest on his show, the Journal. The transcript of that program follows. http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=169957D:C3009629A010612CF0700EDBB3F71972B4B847859706E37D&

~~~~ Be The Change: Move through the day today with a sense of reverence, whatever that means to you.

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