Beauty Quote by Ellen Meloy

There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no…

— Ellen Meloy

“Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of…

— Ellen Meloy

“Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale…

— Ellen Meloy

“ Homo sapiens have left themselves few places and scant ways to witness other species in their own worlds, an estrangement that leaves us…

— Ellen Meloy

“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind…

— Ellen Meloy

The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to…

— Ellen Meloy

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

— Ellen Meloy

“I was a lowly puddle of plasma, trading “I am alive” for a vague “I tend to exist” and weeping for joy over the…

— Ellen Meloy

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

— Ellen Meloy

“A cavalry of sweaty but righteous blond gods chased pesky, unkempt people across an annoyingly leaky Mexican border. A grimy cowboy with a headdress…

— Ellen Meloy

“How do I stop this misery?” I groaned, scanning the shelves for a cure. “Don’t go out there,” he said flatly. I contemplated this…

— Ellen Meloy

“ In genealogy you might say that interest lies in the eye of the gene holder. The actual descendants are far more intrigued with…

— Ellen Meloy