"Am I like the optimist who, while falling……" — Gretel Ehrlich
"Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?"
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Gretel Ehrlich
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22 Quotes by Gretel Ehrlich
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To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history…
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Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
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Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick.…
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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought:…
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The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair.…
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Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid…
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Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean,…
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Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
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I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think…
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Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
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Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile…
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