The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
ANNIE DILLARDThese are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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 here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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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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