"To trace the history of a river .……" — Gretel Ehrlich

To trace the history of a river . . . is to… - Gretel Ehrlich

"To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body."

— Gretel Ehrlich

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22 Quotes by Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from… — Charles Babbage
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought… — William Cobbett
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will… — Rajneesh
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which… — Sun Tzu
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all… — Baron de Montesquieu
The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious. — Carl Jung
When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his… — R C Sproul
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are… — Charles Spurgeon
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in… — Charles Lyell
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be… — Maria Montessori

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