Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
ANNIE DILLARDMountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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We live in all we seek.
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