Nature is, above all, profligate.
ANNIE DILLARDEvery live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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We live in all we seek.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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 would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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