Awake Quote by Gretel Ehrlich

“To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing…

— Gretel Ehrlich

From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

— Gretel Ehrlich

If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils,…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

— Gretel Ehrlich

As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened…

— Gretel Ehrlich

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth,…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)”

— Gretel Ehrlich