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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.

Annie Dillard

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
ANNIE DILLARD

Creation Gesture Stuff
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
ANNIE DILLARD

Care Learning Reading Writing
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
ANNIE DILLARD

Break Broken Heart Heart Search
Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
ANNIE DILLARD

Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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Die Friendship Hope Writing
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Faint Life Mystery Surface
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Color Hide Holy Spread Surface
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Comprehensive Earn Universe
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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Cool Eyes Flame Look See Spark Tinder Water
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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Empty Listen Mountain Ready Wait Wood Yourself
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Art Traffic Traning
Nature is, above all, profligate.
ANNIE DILLARD

Nature One Liner
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Emergency Extend Kind Live Survival
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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Darkness Demand Finding Inspirational Necessary Outside Requirement Stars
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time

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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