“To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In… — Gretel Ehrlich Arms Copy Share Image
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans… — Gretel Ehrlich Ability Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Appetite Copy Share Image
If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard… — Gretel Ehrlich Bigs Copy Share Image
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. — Gretel Ehrlich Nature Copy Share Image
Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans,… — Gretel Ehrlich Born Copy Share Image
As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress… — Gretel Ehrlich Band Copy Share Image
History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's… — Gretel Ehrlich Discipline Copy Share Image
“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of… — Gretel Ehrlich Environmental Copy Share Image
“Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)” — Gretel Ehrlich Water Copy Share Image
What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives. — Gretel Ehrlich Feels Copy Share Image
“Space is an arena where the rowdy particles that are the building blocks of life perform their antics. All spring, things fall;… — Gretel Ehrlich Building blocks Copy Share Image
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. — Gretel Ehrlich Death Copy Share Image
The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather… — Gretel Ehrlich Art Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and… — Gretel Ehrlich Barbara Copy Share Image
“That’s how summer is: no past or future but all present tense, long twilights like vandals, breaking into new days.” — Gretel Ehrlich Present tense Copy Share Image
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed… — Gretel Ehrlich Brushing Copy Share Image
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. — Gretel Ehrlich Accidents Copy Share Image
The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning… — Gretel Ehrlich Band Copy Share Image
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is… — Gretel Ehrlich Autumn Copy Share Image
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? — Gretel Ehrlich Building Copy Share Image
