"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be……" — Gretel Ehrlich
"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still."
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Gretel Ehrlich
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22 Quotes by Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right…
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More Careless Quotes
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one of 294 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
— Honore de Balzac
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first…
— Robert Browning
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
— Ben Jonson
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
— Horace
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,…
— John of the Cross
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto…
— Michael Pollan
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