Eva Saulitis > Quotes

“Alone I wandered between worlds, the objective world of species, natural history and names, and the subjective world of symbols and signs.”
― Eva Saulitis, Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas

“The only way to be changed is to let another being (or place) completely in, to love with a wild, dangerous abandon, knowing the outline of the hole it will make is already being formed.”
― Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth

“Maybe this is the beginning of healing, the repeated lick of the tide, like an animal worrying a wound clean and raw.”
― Eva Saulitis, Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas

“Death is nature. Nature is far from over. In the end, the gore at the creek comforts more than it appalls. In the end – I must believe it – just like a salmon, I will know how to die, and though I die, though I lose my life, nature wins. Nature endures. It is strange, and it is hard, but it is comfort, and I’ll take it.”
― Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth

“I died. The words pop out on the page. I died and the mountain remained. I died and the baby leaves on the birch trees broke through their waxy casks in what was once my yard. I died and the nettles pushed up through layers of fallen birch leaves. I died and one day a wind came and the leaves blizzarded down. And the snow came, and the snow went. I died and you died and the ever-moving earth continued on and on. We died and the earth continued and changed. And so – living, dying, dead, reborn in other forms – did we. There is a future. It is beyond us, like that oval of blue behind layers of mountains, beyond weather. It is not ours to have or to hold. There is a future, and it is not us. It is the mountain. It is the earth.”
― Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth