Gretel Ehrlich
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, The Solace of Open Spaces (Penguin Books, December 2, 1986)
Category: Enviroment
Rebecca Solnit
As a writer, you withdraw and disconnect yourself from the world in order to connect to it in the far-reaching way that is other people elsewhere reading the words that came together in this contemplative state. What is vivid in the writing is not in how it hits the senses but what it does in… Continue reading Rebecca Solnit
Derrick Jensen
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists. — Derrick Jensen,… Continue reading Derrick Jensen
Gretel Ehrlich
Now what looks like smoke is only mare’s tails—clouds streaming—and as the season changes, my young dog and I wonder if raindrops might not be shattered lightning. ― Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home Home (Penguin Books, October 1, 1992)
Gretel Ehrlich
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call “aware”–an almost untranslatable word meaning something like “beauty tinged with sadness. ― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces (Penguin Books, December 2, 1986)
Gretel Ehrlich
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons. — Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces (Penguin, 1986)
Gretel Ehrlich
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.” ― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces (Penguin Books, December 2, 1986)
Gretel Ehrlich
Some days I think this one place isn’t enough. That’s when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and be allowed to love without limits. Those days, like today, I walk with a purpose but no destinations. Only then do I see, at least momentarily, that everything is here. ― Gretel Ehrlich,… Continue reading Gretel Ehrlich
Richard Powers
What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer… . — Richard Powers, The Overstory (W. W. Norton & Co., 201
Benjamin Mee
You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it. ― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo (Weinstein Books; 1st edition, September 9, 2008)
The Vale of Soul-Making 