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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 Dillard

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Afternoon Spend Travel Vacation
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Faint Life Mystery Surface
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
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Heart Prayer Serve Sing Work Hard World
Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Nature One Liner
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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Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
ANNIE DILLARD

Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Event Gossip Hard Heart Learning Love Time
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
ANNIE DILLARD

According Away Believe Book Light Swept
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.
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Care Learning Reading Writing
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Control Fancy Sleep Switch
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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Giving Lose Play Shoot Writing
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
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

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.

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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.

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