“So much has broken away already, there is nothing to drink but air, nothing left to walk on but water, yet the… — Gretel Ehrlich Water Copy Share Image
To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed. — Gretel Ehrlich Exposed Copy Share Image
“I felt light and heavy at the same time. I wondered if the itako we visited had really talked to my dead… — Gretel Ehrlich Friendship Copy Share Image
“I hold the Big Ben clock taken from a dead sheepherder’s wagon. The clock measures intervals of time, not the speed of… — Gretel Ehrlich Cause and effect Copy Share Image
June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in… — Gretel Ehrlich Blooming Copy Share Image
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be… — Gretel Ehrlich Accommodations Copy Share Image
We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have… — Gretel Ehrlich Artist Copy Share Image
I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. — Gretel Ehrlich Fierce Copy Share Image
There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Causes Copy Share Image
I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there. — Gretel Ehrlich Bigs Copy Share Image
“Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough… — Gretel Ehrlich Rough seas Copy Share Image
“Some days I think this one place isn’t enough. That’s when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and… — Gretel Ehrlich Life Copy Share Image
I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes,… — Gretel Ehrlich Contemplative Copy Share Image
“When you’re riding, it should look like a bird flying,” Ray says, smiling. “Not a gut-shot bird … it should be smooth… — Gretel Ehrlich Bird flying Copy Share Image
Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium.… — Gretel Ehrlich Attainment Copy Share Image
A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of… — Gretel Ehrlich Aprons Copy Share Image
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. — Gretel Ehrlich Console Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of… — Gretel Ehrlich Becoming Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Animal Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the… — Gretel Ehrlich Bodies of water Copy Share Image
