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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

Annie Dillard

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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Block Flake Mute Nature Silence World
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
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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Catch Cup Empty Experience Grace Hollow Present Waterfall
We live in all we seek.
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Live One Liner Seek
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
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Alone Love Secret Writing
The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Judgment World
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
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.
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Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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Break Broken Heart Heart Search
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Use Writing Wrong
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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Grasp Necessary Obedient Passion Thinking
Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing

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