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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “It was difficult to know what was worse: being in a hospital where nothing worked and nobody cared, or being alone on an isolated ranch hundreds of miles from decent medical care.”

51. “It was difficult to know what was worse: being in a hospital where nothing worked and nobody cared, or being alone on an isolated ranch hundreds of miles from decent medical care.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered is to be renewed. To be in want is to possess. To have plenty is to be confused,” Lao Tzu wrote.”

52. “To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered is to be renewed. To be in want is to possess. To have plenty is to be confused,” Lao Tzu wrote.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “It was all of a piece, all a form of aggression. Pimping the land and animals. Profit at the expense of all else. Exclusion and exclusivity. Willful ignorance and denial. As I drove, I tried to register how it felt “not to be.”

53. “It was all of a piece, all a form of aggression. Pimping the land and animals. Profit at the expense of all else. Exclusion and exclusivity. Willful ignorance and denial. As I drove, I tried to register how it felt “not to be.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there. OBITUARY One of the largest sheep ranches in northern Wyoming went under this week.”

54. “We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there. OBITUARY One of the largest sheep ranches in northern Wyoming went under this week.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “There’s so little to do except work that people wind up in a state of idle agitation that becomes fatalistic, as if there were nothing to be done about all this untapped energy.”

55. “There’s so little to do except work that people wind up in a state of idle agitation that becomes fatalistic, as if there were nothing to be done about all this untapped energy.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Those mountains are my mind’s wall and wellspring. Down here, the light is peach colored, and as the sun shifts, one loose shadow, like thought, takes on a sharp edge.”

56. “Those mountains are my mind’s wall and wellspring. Down here, the light is peach colored, and as the sun shifts, one loose shadow, like thought, takes on a sharp edge.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.”

57. “Loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Our “always in a hurry” ways of living seemed doubly insignificant. Intimacy with weather, terrain, and pronghorn taught me to hold each foot-worn trail in my mind as it deepened. I liked to think that a “green light” glowed inside those animals, instructing them how to survive and eat well. We humans might do the same and, in the process, vernalize our minds.”

58. “Our “always in a hurry” ways of living seemed doubly insignificant. Intimacy with weather, terrain, and pronghorn taught me to hold each foot-worn trail in my mind as it deepened. I liked to think that a “green light” glowed inside those animals, instructing them how to survive and eat well. We humans might do the same and, in the process, vernalize our minds.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “It had occurred to me that comfort was only a disguise for discomfort; reference points, a disguise for what will always change.”

59. “It had occurred to me that comfort was only a disguise for discomfort; reference points, a disguise for what will always change.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Reluctantly, Kazuko accepts one of the tomatoes. “This is absurd. You have nothing and you’re giving us food,” she says. He stares hard at her: “The less I have, the happier I am.”

60. “Reluctantly, Kazuko accepts one of the tomatoes. “This is absurd. You have nothing and you’re giving us food,” she says. He stares hard at her: “The less I have, the happier I am.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Becoming “native to a place” doesn’t have to be about secured boundaries of blood and territory but can allude to a deep, growing knowledge of that place. The way one feasts on it and becomes nourished and gives thanks. And hands it over to be shared.”

61. “Becoming “native to a place” doesn’t have to be about secured boundaries of blood and territory but can allude to a deep, growing knowledge of that place. The way one feasts on it and becomes nourished and gives thanks. And hands it over to be shared.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Ice lies on water as far as the eye can see: scattered rhinestones, spiral arms of ice, ice walls and icebergs, and bits of ice that have splintered off larger pieces whose translucent edges are shaped like miniature whales.”

62. “Ice lies on water as far as the eye can see: scattered rhinestones, spiral arms of ice, ice walls and icebergs, and bits of ice that have splintered off larger pieces whose translucent edges are shaped like miniature whales.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Water is how time plays its notes, announcing mortal wounds, unvoiced regrets, unexpected spurts of joy. It is time’s unbroken medium; it carries us. Water is alive; it remembers how it has been treated.”

63. “Water is how time plays its notes, announcing mortal wounds, unvoiced regrets, unexpected spurts of joy. It is time’s unbroken medium; it carries us. Water is alive; it remembers how it has been treated.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don’t even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and nights are lived in the herd, and an intimacy blossoms as it does when one attends any gravely ill being, after talk becomes impossible or unnecessary to exchange.”

64. “Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don’t even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and nights are lived in the herd, and an intimacy blossoms as it does when one attends any gravely ill being, after talk becomes impossible or unnecessary to exchange.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “I hold the Big Ben clock taken from a dead sheepherder’s wagon. The clock measures intervals of time, not the speed of time, and the calendar is a scaffolding we hang as if time were rushing water we could harness. Time-bound, I hinge myself to a linear bias – cause and effect all laid out in a neat row.”

65. “I hold the Big Ben clock taken from a dead sheepherder’s wagon. The clock measures intervals of time, not the speed of time, and the calendar is a scaffolding we hang as if time were rushing water we could harness. Time-bound, I hinge myself to a linear bias – cause and effect all laid out in a neat row.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Every blade of grass counts if we are to survive.”

66. “Every blade of grass counts if we are to survive.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “A day goes by. Every shiver of grass counts. The shallows and dapples in air that give grass life are like water. The bobcat returns nightly. During easy jags of sleep the dog’s dream-paws chase coyotes. I ride to the sheep. Empty sky, an absolute blue. Empty heart. Sunburned face blotches brown. Another layer of skin to peel, to meet myself again in the mirror. A plane passes overhead – probably the government trapper. I’m waving hello, but he speeds away.”

67. “A day goes by. Every shiver of grass counts. The shallows and dapples in air that give grass life are like water. The bobcat returns nightly. During easy jags of sleep the dog’s dream-paws chase coyotes. I ride to the sheep. Empty sky, an absolute blue. Empty heart. Sunburned face blotches brown. Another layer of skin to peel, to meet myself again in the mirror. A plane passes overhead – probably the government trapper. I’m waving hello, but he speeds away.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Space is an arena where the rowdy particles that are the building blocks of life perform their antics. All spring, things fall; the general law of increasing disorder is on the rise. What is it to be a cause without an effect, an effect without a cause, to abandon time-bound thinking, the use of tenses, the temporally related emotions of impatience, expectation, hope, and fear? But I can’t. At the edge of the lake I watch ducks. Like them, my thinking rises and falls on the same water.”

68. “Space is an arena where the rowdy particles that are the building blocks of life perform their antics. All spring, things fall; the general law of increasing disorder is on the rise. What is it to be a cause without an effect, an effect without a cause, to abandon time-bound thinking, the use of tenses, the temporally related emotions of impatience, expectation, hope, and fear? But I can’t. At the edge of the lake I watch ducks. Like them, my thinking rises and falls on the same water.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “The mind splices fragments of sensation and language into story after story. The blood in my veins and every blade of grass is oxygen, sugar, photosynthesis, genetic expression, electrochemistry, and time. I watch clouds crush the last bit of pink sky. Breath slips even as I inhale, even as snow falls out of season and mud thaws, even as lightning ignites a late spring.”

69. “The mind splices fragments of sensation and language into story after story. The blood in my veins and every blade of grass is oxygen, sugar, photosynthesis, genetic expression, electrochemistry, and time. I watch clouds crush the last bit of pink sky. Breath slips even as I inhale, even as snow falls out of season and mud thaws, even as lightning ignites a late spring.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “He knew that sick land meant a sick society, that the loss of biodiversity meant the end of life.”

70. “He knew that sick land meant a sick society, that the loss of biodiversity meant the end of life.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “It’s said that if we can drop the bothersome appendages of egos and sugar lumps, we will begin to feel an immense caring for others, for otherness, for all kinds of suffering, and in doing so, we will be able to exchange ourselves for others. If we try, strange sympathies will fill us and the power of empathy will fuel us forward.”

71. “It’s said that if we can drop the bothersome appendages of egos and sugar lumps, we will begin to feel an immense caring for others, for otherness, for all kinds of suffering, and in doing so, we will be able to exchange ourselves for others. If we try, strange sympathies will fill us and the power of empathy will fuel us forward.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “You see, poor land leads to poor people, conflict, disease. To heal the planet, you have to heal the whole.”

72. “You see, poor land leads to poor people, conflict, disease. To heal the planet, you have to heal the whole.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “So often we miss the whole-fabric aspect of where we live, and our own consciousness embedded within it. We are not interrelated but “intrabranched”: one branch wound around another and fused into a single embrace. Our lacelike nervations have overlapping frequencies. It’s what the Greenlanders simply call sila: consciousness, weather, and the power of nature as one. If nothing else, we are what the physicist Richard Feynman called “scattering amplitudes,” wholes within unbounded totalities.”

73. “So often we miss the whole-fabric aspect of where we live, and our own consciousness embedded within it. We are not interrelated but “intrabranched”: one branch wound around another and fused into a single embrace. Our lacelike nervations have overlapping frequencies. It’s what the Greenlanders simply call sila: consciousness, weather, and the power of nature as one. If nothing else, we are what the physicist Richard Feynman called “scattering amplitudes,” wholes within unbounded totalities.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “In disasters, children show us the way to laughter. They are our special treasures.”

74. “In disasters, children show us the way to laughter. They are our special treasures.”

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Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Almost daily I return to the high country. Mountain is shoulder: I rub against it and step forward. The hinge squeals, an arm lifts, a rock wall slides, and for a moment the mountain’s inner sanctum is revealed.”

75. “Almost daily I return to the high country. Mountain is shoulder: I rub against it and step forward. The hinge squeals, an arm lifts, a rock wall slides, and for a moment the mountain’s inner sanctum is revealed.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction – not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth, to populations of insects, plants, and animals, and to one another with senseless betrayal – and how the proposed solutions are always mechanistic, as if we could fabricate the health of the planet the way we make a new car.”

76. “What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction – not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth, to populations of insects, plants, and animals, and to one another with senseless betrayal – and how the proposed solutions are always mechanistic, as if we could fabricate the health of the planet the way we make a new car.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “But ranchers who cherish the western life and its values also pray for oil wells in their calving pasture or a coal lease on prime grassland. Economics has pressed them into such a paradoxical state. For years, they’ve borrowed $100,000 for operating costs; now they can’t afford interest. Disfigurement is synonymous with the whole idea of a frontier. As soon as we lay our hands on it, the freedom we thought it represented is quickly gone.”

77. “But ranchers who cherish the western life and its values also pray for oil wells in their calving pasture or a coal lease on prime grassland. Economics has pressed them into such a paradoxical state. For years, they’ve borrowed $100,000 for operating costs; now they can’t afford interest. Disfigurement is synonymous with the whole idea of a frontier. As soon as we lay our hands on it, the freedom we thought it represented is quickly gone.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich Quote: “Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.”

78. “Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

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