I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.
Annie DillardDoes anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
Annie DillardWe are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
Annie DillardThere is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
Annie Dillard