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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

Annie Dillard

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Nature One Liner
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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Care Learning Reading Writing
The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Judgment World
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Color Hide Holy Spread Surface
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Alone Love Secret Writing
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Comprehensive Earn Universe
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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Cool Eyes Flame Look See Spark Tinder Water
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Pronounce Quite Sea Whisper
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Caution Courage One Liner Test
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate

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