I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
ANNIE DILLARDCaring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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We live in all we seek.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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