Gretel Ehrlich said this quote

“ Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly. ”

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The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly, light would elucidate the most difficult truths, wind would sweep away obtuse padding.

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Gretel Ehrlich Art Nature Writing

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly, light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding. Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

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Gretel Ehrlich Nature Nature Writing

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

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Gretel Ehrlich Inspirational Strength

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

Gretel Ehrlich Grief Life Lessons Loss