Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

Gretel Ehrlich's Popular Quotes

I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a con…

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

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Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

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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 ou…

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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…

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True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

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

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

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