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Gretel Ehrlich


Born
in The United States
January 21, 1946

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Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature & Fiction


Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, novelist, essayist, and poet born on a horse ranch near Santa Barbara, California and educated at both Bennington College in Vermont and UCLA film school. After working in film for 10 years and following the death of a loved one, she began writing full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming ranch where she had been filming. Her first book, The Solace of Open Spaces, is a collection of essays describing her love of the region.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 13,117 ratings · 1,590 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors
The Solace of Open Spaces
4.11 avg rating — 7,361 ratings — published 1984 — 25 editions
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Sea...
3.94 avg rating — 988 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions
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A Match to the Heart: One W...
3.96 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
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Facing the Wave: A Journey ...
3.79 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions
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Islands, the Universe, Home
3.93 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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Unsolaced: Along the Way to...
4.01 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions
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Heart Mountain
3.82 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions
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The Future of Ice: A Journe...
3.78 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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John Muir: Nature's Visionary
4.18 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Blizzard Year
3.47 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
― Gretel Ehrlich
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“Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces
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“I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”
― Gretel Ehrlich
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