Best Annie Dillard Wisdom
- I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains All
- Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain. Cruelty
- 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… Dark
- if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not. Buries
- We live in all we seek. All
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Air
- Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. Boyhood
- Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? Absolute
- 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… Cool
- Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do. Caring
- Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't… All
- It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of… Alive
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what… Course
- Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was… Arm
- What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world. Cry
- For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? Doe
- Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and… Absurdity
- The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what… Ecuador
- I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all… All
- Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly. All
- You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in… All
- You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work. Hard
- All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll… All
- I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… Ago
- We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. Any
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