Universe Quotes by Annie Dillard

16 Universe quotes by Annie Dillard

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Dillard’s keen eye for detail transforms the vast into intimate moments. In 16 quotes, she weaves natural observation with philosophical depth, offering a fresh, lyrical take on the cosmos.

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“I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for…

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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

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“I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling,…

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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or…

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The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since…

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A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is…

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Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive…

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“If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better…

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poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you…

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Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is…

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When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own…

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After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies…

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The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that…

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The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it…

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“The universe has continued to deal in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down eons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh…

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Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun;…

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“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.”

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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

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We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

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“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing…

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“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking…

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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done…

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It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory…

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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life…

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