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title: "2 Blooming Quotes By Gretel Ehrlich"
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> [June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/june-marked-the-end-of-spring-on-california-s-central-coast-and-the/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

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> [We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/we-are-often-like-rivers-careless-and-forceful-timid-and-dangerous/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

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## More by Gretel Ehrlich

> [“To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/to-yield-is-to-be-preserved-whole-to-be-bent-is-to-become-straight-to/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/turbulence-like-many-forms-of-trouble-cannot-always-be-seen-we-bounce/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/from-the-clayey-soil-of-northern-wyoming-is-mined-bentonite-which-is/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/finally-the-lessons-of-impermanence-taught-me-this-loss-constitutes/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/if-anything-is-endemic-to-wyoming-it-is-wind-this-big-room-of-space/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/everything-in-nature-invites-us-constantly-to-be-what-we-are/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/between-highway-sounds-i-heard-waves-and-thought-how-the-curve-of-the/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [Walking is also an ambulation of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/walking-is-also-an-ambulation-of-mind/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/as-fog-moved-to-the-mainland-i-heard-a-flock-of-birds-fly-over-they/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/history-is-not-truth-versus-falsehoods-but-a-mixture-of-both-a-m/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/what-shocks-me-so-is-the-detachment-with-which-we-dispense/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [“Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/like-water-i-have-no-skin-only-surface-tension-gretel-ehrlich/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/what-flaubert-refers-to-as-the-m-lancholies-du-voyage-is-like-the/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [“Space is an arena where the rowdy particles that are the building blocks of life perform their antics. All spring, things fall; the general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/space-is-an-arena-where-the-rowdy-particles-that-are-the-building/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

> [There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretel-ehrlich/there-is-nothing-in-nature-that-can-t-be-taken-as-a-sign-of-both/)

[Gretel Ehrlich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretel-ehrlich/)

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