“Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don’t even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and… — Gretel Ehrlich Medicine Copy Share Image
I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain… — Gretel Ehrlich Acting Copy Share Image
To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body… — Gretel Ehrlich Body Copy Share Image
“Lately I’ve had to redefine the word “knowledge” to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I’m dealing not in careless absurdities here… — Gretel Ehrlich Knowledge Copy Share Image
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals. — Gretel Ehrlich Animal Copy Share Image
All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously… — Gretel Ehrlich Ability Copy Share Image
“Now what looks like smoke is only mare’s tails—clouds streaming—and as the season changes, my young dog and I wonder if raindrops… — Gretel Ehrlich Red light Copy Share Image
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs… — Gretel Ehrlich Bird Copy Share Image
The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by… — Gretel Ehrlich Burning Copy Share Image
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior;… — Gretel Ehrlich Animal Copy Share Image
True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere. — Gretel Ehrlich Findings Copy Share Image
“A sense of panic ensued, but panic is like fresh air. The world falls out from under us and we fly, we… — Gretel Ehrlich Anxiety Copy Share Image
Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory… — Gretel Ehrlich Awake Copy Share Image
“During the night, sheet lightning inlaid the walls with cool gold. I felt like an ancient, mummified child who had been found… — Gretel Ehrlich Death Copy Share Image
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long… — Gretel Ehrlich Autumn Copy Share Image
A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase… — Gretel Ehrlich Articulation Copy Share Image
I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times… — Gretel Ehrlich Arriving Copy Share Image
It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next… — Gretel Ehrlich Ears Copy Share Image
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many… — Gretel Ehrlich Activity Copy Share Image
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous,… — Gretel Ehrlich Careless Copy Share Image
“Ranchers are midwives, hunters, nurturers, providers, and conservationists all at once. What we’ve interpreted as toughness—weathered skin, calloused hands, a squint in… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“its cold immensity mocking us as we lunged away into the dark curvaceous violence of the sea.” — Gretel Ehrlich 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
Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the… — Gretel Ehrlich Articulation Copy Share Image
