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Gretel Ehrlich Quotes: Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.
         

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.


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To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.



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



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To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.



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A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.



Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.



I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.



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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 there.



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Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.



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Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.



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

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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