"Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing……" — Gretel Ehrlich
"Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life."
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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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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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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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The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating…
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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire,…
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire…
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Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm…
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I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a…
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All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers,…
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I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't…
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The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into…
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Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of…
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Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
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