"To trace the history of a river or……" — Gretel Ehrlich
"To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again."
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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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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought:…
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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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