Mountains 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.
ANNIE DILLARDYou search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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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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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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